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This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th-
century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple
of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot,
shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the
education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child.
Published two hundred years after Condillac's death, this
translation contains treatises which were, until now, virtually
unavailable in English: A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise of the
Sensations, Logic.
In recent years, an increasing number of thinkers have grown
suspicious of the Enlightenment ideals of progress, reason, and
freedom. These critics, many inspired by Martin Heidegger, have
attacked modern philosophy's attempt to ground a vision of the
world upon the liberty of the human subject. Pointing to the rise
of totalitarian regimes in this century, they argue that the
Enlightenment has promoted the enslavement of human beings rather
than their freedom.
In this first of four volumes that aim to revitalize the
fundamental values of modern political thought, one of the leading
figures in the contemporary revival of liberalism in France
responds to these critics and offers a philosophically cogent
defense of a humanistic modernity. Luc Ferry reexamines the
philosopical basis of the contemporary retreat from the
Enlightenment and then suggests his own alternative, which defends
the ideals of modernity while giving due consideration to the
objections of the critics.
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