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The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 2: Esprit Revolutionnaire
By (Author) Ira O. Wade
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
194
Paperback
468
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
794g
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 Condorcet as they reveal the transformation of the esprit