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A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment de Philipp Blom

A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment

Autor Philipp Blom
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2012 – vârsta de la 13 ani
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 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, passion, reason, and truly humanist thinking. A startlingly relevant work of narrative history, A Wicked Company forces us to confront with new eyes the foundational debates about modern society and its future.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780465028658
ISBN-10: 0465028659
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Locul publicării:New York

Notă biografică

Philipp Blom is the author of several award-winning books, including A Wicked Company, and The Vertigo Years, which has been made into a three-part television documentary. A frequent lecturer at European and American universities, he also contributes to international newspapers and hosts a radio show on Austrian national radio. Philipp Blom lives in Vienna.

Descriere

"Blom skillfully evokes the characters of these young men.... [His] coupling of the lives of the "philosophes" with their thought helps make their ideas less desiccated than they might otherwise have appeared in the hands of a more academic writer. He has an admirable ability to get to the heart of what Spinoza, Hume or Voltaire argued."--"Wall Street Journal"