Reading the French Enlightenment

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in French Series)

by Julie Candler Hayes

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Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse or systematic spirit. Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts, arguing instead for a new understanding of systematic reason as complex, paradoxical,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:052165128X

ISBN13:9780521651288

Release Date:July 1999

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:258 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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