The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

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Carl L Becker

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This title challenges the belief that the 18th century was essentially modern in its temper. 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.

Author Biography:

Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), a professor of European history at Cornell University, was one of the world’s leading authorities on eighteenth-century thought. Johnson Kent Wright is associate professor in the department of history at Arizona State University and author of A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: The Political Thought of Mably.

Release date Australia

November 10th, 2003

Author

Carl L Becker

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

208

Dimensions

13x20x1

ISBN-13

9780300101508

Product ID

3503702

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