The heavenly city of the Eighteenth-century philosophers
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- Verlag YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780300101508
- ISBN10 0300101503
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 168
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Bindung Gebunden
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Die Moderne PhilosophieThe heavenly city of the Eighteenth-century philosophers
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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.