French Free-Thought from Gassendi to Voltaire Contributor(s): Spink, J. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 147251243X ISBN-13: 9781472512437 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 194 |
Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.50 lbs) 345 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book makes an important contribution to the history of ideas in France in the century preceding the main manifestations of the Enlightenment. A number of detailed studies already exist which deal with special aspects of the thought of the period, and works abound on individual thinkers such as Descartes and Pascal. Professor Spink, however, has endeavoured to present within a single volume a full, coherent and balanced account of the radical inquiries in literature, philosophy, and the natural sciences that stemmed from the intellectual crisis of the 1620s. He analyses the content of this body of free-thought and devotes particular attention to the ways in which the new ideas were disseminated in the face of the hostility of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. |