The present book contextualizes Du Chatelets contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Epoque Emilienne as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Chatelets powerful philosophy and legacy. Du Chatelet was an outstanding figure in the…
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The present book contextualizes Du Chatelets contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Epoque Emilienne as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Chatelets powerful philosophy and legacy. Du Chatelet was an outstanding figure in the…
The present book contextualizes Du Chatelets contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Epoque Emilienne as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Chatelets powerful philosophy and legacy. Du Chatelet was an outstanding figure in the…
"Fénelon may be the most neglected of all the major early modern philosophers. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This problem is particularly acute in the Angl…
"Fénelon may be the most neglected of all the major early modern philosophers. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This problem is particularly acute in the Angl…
"Fénelon may be the most neglected of all the major early modern philosophers. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This problem is particularly acute in the Angl…
"In The Other Pascals, Conley argues that Jacqueline Pascal, Gilberte Pascal Périer, and Marguerite Périer each developed a distinctive variant of the neo-Augustinian philosophy which functioned as their family's intellectual creed, and which most people know through their broth…
"In The Other Pascals, Conley argues that Jacqueline Pascal, Gilberte Pascal Périer, and Marguerite Périer each developed a distinctive variant of the neo-Augustinian philosophy which functioned as their family's intellectual creed, and which most people know through their broth…
This book examines the reception of the works of the baron d'Holbach throughout francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant 'Christian Enlightenment', and much more.
"The Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writings against religion. His prolific campaign of atheism and anti-clericalism, waged from the printing presses of Amsterdam in the years around 1770, was so radical that it provoked an…
