Party of Humanity Essays in the French Enlightenment

Name: Party of Humanity Essays in the French Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780393006070

ISBN-10: 0393006077

ISBN-13: 9780393006070

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Peter Gay

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Often the target of uninformed or hostile criticism, the Enlightenment has been characterized as "shallow and pretentious intellectualism" and "unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition." In this provocative book--at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic--Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusion from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--to the esteem they deserve.The nine related essays in The Party of Humanity fall into three divisions: three are on Voltaire, presenting the great philosophe as a tough-minded, realistic man of letters who tried to reshape his world, rather than as a merely brittle and shallow…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.50" wide x 0.80" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Peter Gay lives in New York City and Connecticut.