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Reading the French enlightenment : system and subversion /
Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts. Through close analysis of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, she emphasizes the urgency of maintaining...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in French ;
60. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the critique of systematic reason
- 'Système': origins and itineraries
- The epistolary machine
- Physics and figuration in Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique
- Condillac and the identity of the other
- Diderot: changing the system
- Conclusion: Labyrinths of Enlightenment.