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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
The Heavenly City of the EighteenthCentury Philosophers
Author: Carl Becker
Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300000177
ISBN-10: 0300000170
Publication Date: 9/10/1959
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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