Intellectual and cultural movement of the bourgeoisie and the masses that arose in many parts of Europe one after another in the 17th and 18th centuries against the feudal absolutism and religious obscurantism. It was the second movement of emancipation of the mind in Western society after the Renaissance.. .
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