Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Second Edition

Informationen zum Autor Carl L. Becker (1873-1945)! a professor of European history at Cornell University! was one of the world's leading authorities on eighteenth-century thought. Johnson Kent Wright is associate professor in the department of history at Arizona State University and author of A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably. Klappentext Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was! in fact! very far from that; that Voltaire! Hume! Diderot! and Locke were living in a medieval world! and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials." In a new foreword! Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was very far from that; that Voltaire! Hume! Diderot! and Locke were living in a medieval world! and that they "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials".

Product details

• Authors: Carl L. Becker, BECKER CARL L, Becker Carl L., Johnson Kent Wright
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2003
• EAN: 9780300101508
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10150-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Yale Nota Bene; Nota bene; Yale Nota Bene
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought