Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment

by Philipp Blom

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The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In A Wicked...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0465028659

ISBN13:9780465028658

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Basic Books

Length:384 Pages

Weight:1.11 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Europe France Historical Study & Educational Resources History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social History

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