Heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers, the
Auteur :
Becker, Carl L.
Éditeur :
Yale University Press
ISBN :
9780300101508
Date de publication :
10 nov. 2003
Dimensions :
19,7 x 12,7 cm
Poids :
181 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that they "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials"