A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
by:
Philipp Blom (author)
“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...
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“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
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780465014538 (0465014534)
Publish date: November 2nd 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Religion,
Politics,
Philosophy,
France,
European History,
World History,
18th Century
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