The French Enlightenment
- ISBN-10
- 0333075765
- ISBN-13
- 9780333075760
- Category
- History / Modern / 18th Century
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1972
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- J. H. Brumfitt
Description
There are three significant questions which may be asked about the Enlightenment, as about any similar phenomenon: what? whence? and whither? This is a short general survey of this important movement in the history of ideas, which would combine some account of the historical and social background with a closer look at the thought of the more outstanding individuals.
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