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Human nature, cultural diversity, and the French Enlightenment /
Foremost among eighteenth-century European thinkers are the French philosophers Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Diderot who have left indelible marks on the pattern of modern intellectual history. Their crowning collaborative achievement was the Encyclopedie, a vast work which influenced generations of e...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Foremost among eighteenth-century European thinkers are the French philosophers Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Diderot who have left indelible marks on the pattern of modern intellectual history. Their crowning collaborative achievement was the Encyclopedie, a vast work which influenced generations of educated Europeans. Vyverberg's work reassesses several ideas long considered to be the central tenets of Enlightenment philosophy and challenges the prevailing view of the Enlightenment's supposedly rigid conception of human nature. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195345223 0195345223 1280523956 9781280523953 |