Author: HAVENS, GEORGE R. (GEORGE REMINGTON) (1890-1977)
Title: The age of ideas : from reaction to revolution in eighteenth-century France
Description: New York : Holt 1955. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 474 p. : illus. ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; pt. 1. Transition: How absolute government failed -- The critical spirit of Pierre Bayle -- Fénelon. critic of Louis XIV -- Fontenelle and the spirit of modern science -- pt. 2. Criticism. ferment. repression: The sorry reign of Louis the 'well beloved' -- Montesquieu and the satirical 'Persian letters' -- Montesquieu's question: Why did Rome fall? -- Montesquieu's 'Spirit of laws' -- Montesquieu and America -- Voltaire and the bombshell of the 'Philosophical letters' -- Voltaire the historian -- Taking counsel with Candide -- The philosopher of Ferney -- Rousseau and modern progress -- Rousseau and the problem of inequality -- Novelist. educator. and political theorist -- Rousseau and the 'Confessions' -- Diderot the man -- Diderot and the 'Encyclopedia' -- Diderot's criticism of drama and art -- Diderot. novelist and philosopher -- pt. 3. Explosion: Beaumarchais on the eve of the revolution -- Louis XVI pays the bill. Subjects; Eighteenth century. French literature - 18th century - History and criticism. Philosophers. French - 18th century. Enlightenment - France. Philosophy. French. France - Intellectual life - 18th century. France - History - 18th century. France - Civilization - 18th century. Weight in Kg appr.:

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