Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment

Name: Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780465028658

ISBN-10: 0465028659

ISBN-13: 9780465028658

Edition: N/A

Authors: 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.InA Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional group of friends. All brilliant minds, full of wit, courage, and insight, their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment based on atheism,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Introduction


Fathers and Sons



City of Lights



Journeys



Encyclopï¿½die: Grand Ambitions



Chez M. Holbach



Audacity



Christianity Unveiled



Only the Wicked Man Lives Alone


Marvelous Machines



Le Bon David



A Natural Philosophy



Sheikhs of the Rue Royale



Grandval



The Bear


The Island of Love



Crime and Punishment



The Most Ungrateful Dogg in the World



Fame and Fate



The Empress and the Bean King



Sex in Paradise



Fifty Hired Priests


Epilogue: A Stolen Revolution


A Glossary of Protagonists


A Very Selective Bibliography


Notes


Index