Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment / / Ira O. Wade.
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 wor...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1971 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (702 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Enlightenments We Have Known
- 1. The Changing Picture of the Enlightenment
- 2. Some Attempts at Definition
- 3. Theories on the Origins of the Enlightenment
- Tart II. The Renaissance Enlightenment
- 4. The Challenge of the Renaissance
- 5. The Response of Renaissance Man
- Part III. Enlightenment And Baroque
- 6. The Conditions of Baroque Thought
- 7. The Intellectual Response of Baroque Man
- Part IV. Enlightenment and Classicism
- 8. The Conditions of French Classicism
- 9. Travel Fiction and the Drive for Continuity
- 10. Two Classical Free-Thinkers
- 11. The Structuring of Enlightenment Attitudes
- Conclusion: The Making of a Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index