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Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he
has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade turns now
to Voltaire's milieu and begins an account of the French
Enlightenment which will explain its genesis, its nature and
coherence, and its diffusion in the modern world. To understand the
movement of ideas that produced the spirit of the Enlightenment,
Mr. Wade identifies and examines the people, events, and rich
development of philosophy in the Renaissance and seventeenth
century. He considers, in turn, the challenges of the Renaissance
and the responses of its leading writers (Rabelais, Bacon, and
Montaigne); Baroque thought (Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, the
Freethinkers); and Classicism (Moliere, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz,
Newton). Mr. Wade begins his discussion by examining the critical
literature on the Enlightenment and concludes with a theoretical
chapter, "The Making of a Spirit." As the history of an
intellectual culture, his study makes vivid the power of thought in
the making of a civilization. Originally published in 1971. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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