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The Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment
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The Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment Hardcover - 2016

by Ira O. Wade


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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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  • Title The Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment
  • Author Ira O. Wade
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 702
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2016-04-19
  • ISBN 9780691647012 / 0691647011
  • Weight 2.54 lbs (1.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.5 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Dewey Decimal Code 914.403
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