The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic

The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic

In this work, Henry Vyverberg traces the evolution and consequences of a crucial idea in French Enlightenment thought--the idea of human nature. Human nature wa

Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as &"the doctr

Challenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken-for-granted prejudices by