Peter Gay

Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud is a book by Peter Gay.

The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud is a book written by Peter Gay.

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master …