Author Name: Becker, Carl L.
Title: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good+
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: CT Yale University Press 1959
ISBN Number: B000AMW67I
Seller ID: 14804
168 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Light front hinge crease. No spine creases. Tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Solid, clean. These graceful and witty essays by a distinguished American historian disclose the fallacy of believing that the 18th century was essentially modern in its temper, Carl Becker brilliantly demonstrates that the period commonly describes as The Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Volitaire, Hume, Diterol, and Locke were living in a medieval world , and that the philosophers demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustie only to rebuild it with more up to date materials.
Philosophy
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