A wicked company : the forgotten radicalism of the European Enlightenment / Philipp Blom.
A wicked company : the forgotten radicalism of the European Enlightenment / Philipp Blom.
A wicked company : the forgotten radicalism of the European Enlightenment / Philipp Blom.
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New York : Basic Books, c2010.
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N944.034/23
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English
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xx, 361 p. : ill., portraits ; 25 cm.
Contents
Fathers and sons. City of lights ; Journeys ; Encyclopédie: grand ambitions ; Chez M. Holbach ; Audacity ; Christianity unveiled ; Only the wicked man lives alone -- Marvelous machines. Le bon David ; A natural philosophy ; Sheikhs of the Rue Royale ; Grandval ; The bear -- The island of love. Crim...
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New York : Basic Books, c2010.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2010.
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Acclaimed historian, Philipp Blom, retraces the fortunes and characters of the men, that from the 1750s to the 1770s in the Paris salon of Baron Paul Thirty Holback had debated with intellectual daring and produced revolutionary ideas. These brilliant minds full of wit, courage, and humanity in their thinking created a different and radical French...
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A wicked company : the forgotten radicalism of the European Enlightenment / Philipp Blom.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index.
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c2010.
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N944.034/23
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0465014534 (alk. paper)
9780465014538 (alk. paper)
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944.034
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991006439379702626
