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A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably
ISBN: 9780804727891 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. This book has two related aims. The first is to fill an important gap in historical scholarship. Although Mably, whose career as a historian and political theorist stretched from 1740 to the eve of the French Revolution, clearly played a major role in the intellectual history of his era, there has been no study of his life and thought in English for nearly seventy years. At the same time, the...
This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the er...
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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
ISBN: 9780300101508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials." In a new foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the...
Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose C...
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87,31 zł |