The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture / Louis Dupre.
The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture / Louis Dupre.
The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture / Louis Dupre.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N190.9033/3
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English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
1. A definition and a provisional justification -- 2. A different cosmos -- 3. A new sense of selfhood -- 4. Toward a new conception of art -- 5. The moral crisis -- 6. The origin of modern social theories -- 7. The new science of history -- 8. The religious crisis -- 9. The faith of the philosopher...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2004.
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"The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a...
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The Enlightenment and the intellectual foundations of modern culture / Louis Dupre.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N190.9033/3
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74VKp8XllOod
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0300100329 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
9780300100327 (hardcover)
0300100329 (hardcover)
9780300100327 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0300100329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780300100327 :
0300100329 :
9780300100327 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
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190.9033
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991019400519702626
