Book ID: CBB000081790

Reading the French Enlightenment: System and subversion (1999)

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Hayes, Julie Candler (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: x + 243 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: Prologue--despotic Enlightenment. Introduction--the critique of systematic reason. 1. “Système”--origins and itineraries. 2. The epistolary machine. 3. Physics and figuration in Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique. 4. Condillac and the identity of the other. 5. Diderot--changing the system. Conclusion--labyrinths of Enlightenment.


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Authors & Contributors
Werner, Stephen
Tega, Walter
Swiggers, Pierre
Rogister, John
Rey, Roselyne
Petrovich, Vesna Crnjanski
Concepts
Science
Encyclopedias (history)
Classification of knowledge
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Science and society
Medicine
Time Periods
18th century
Places
France
England
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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