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The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 1: Esprit Philosophique
By (Author) Ira O. Wade
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
European history
194
Paperback
716
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
964g
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 modern. In the first volume he traces the transformation they brought about in religion, ethics, aesthetics, science, politics, economics, and self-