A Wicked Company - The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

A Wicked Company tells the remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbach's Parisian salon, an epicenter of freethinking that brought together the greatest minds of the 18th century. Over wine-soaked dinner parties, the finest intellectuals of the Western world--figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, and Benjamin Franklin--matched wits and scandalized one another with their own ever-more-provocative ideas. Writers of genius all, full of wit and courage (but also personal contradictions, doubts, conflicts of conscience, and their fair share of open arguments and love affairs), this group of friends embodied an astonishing radicalism in European thought, so uncompromising and bold that its bracing, liberating, humanist vision has still not been fully realized. As acclaimed historian Philipp Blom shows, these thinkers' analysis of our culture remains as valid as it was then, and has lost little of its potential to shock--or to force us to confront with new eyes debates about our society and its future.

General

Imprint:	BasicBooks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	May 2012
Authors:	Philipp Blom
Dimensions:	230 x 146 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	361
Edition:	First Trade Paper Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-465-02865-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-465-02865-9
Barcode:	9780465028658

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