The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 2 : Esprit Revolutionnaire / Volume II, Esprit revolutionnaire / Esprit revolutionnaire / Volume II,

The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit moderne. The second volume probes the writings of Morelly, Helvetius, Holbach, Mably, and Condorce...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wade, Ira Owen, 1896- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
French philosophy > 18th century.
Enlightenment.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • The building of organic unity
  • Foreword
  • Organic unity in Voltaire
  • Organic unity in Diderot
  • Organic unity in Rousseau
  • Organic unity in the encyclopedic
  • From "esprit philosophique" to "esprit revolutionnaire"
  • Morelly and the dawn of totalitarian democracy
  • Helvetius and everybody's secret
  • Holbach, Voltaire, and the debate on atheism
  • Raynal
  • Mably
  • The impact of the American rebellion
  • Condorcet and progress
  • The result.

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