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The Party of Humanity - Essays in the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
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The Party of Humanity - Essays in the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
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The nine related essays in The Party of Humanity fall into three
divisions: three are on Voltaire, presenting the great philosophe
as a tough-minded, realistic man of letters who tried to reshape
his world, rather than as a merely brittle and shallow wit. Then,
three essays discuss the French Enlightenment as a whole and seek
for the unity underlying the diversity of tempers and attitudes
among its leaders. The last three, which include Mr. Gay's
well-known critique of Carl Becker's The Heavenly City of the
Eighteenth Century Philosophers, challenge some widely accepted
views of the Enlightenment. The longest chapter here is a detailed
examination of Rousseau and his reputation among his interpreters.
What all nine essays have in common, apart from their portrayal of
the philosophes as serious and engaged partisans of humanity, is
that they are essays in the social history of ideas; they all treat
ideas as inseparable from the specific social and cultural setting
from which they emerge, and which they affect.
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