The Brave New World of the Enlightenment

by Louis I. Bredvold and Louis Ignatius Bredvold

Book Overview

The Brave New World of the Enlightenment is a brilliant introduction to the thought of those centuries, illuminating with a rare intelligence the ideas that brought forth the Enlightenment and the ensuing confusion of our age. In a sustained and incisive critique the distinguished scholar Louis I. Bredvold distills and expounds the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Condillac, Hartley, Helvetius, Diderot, and Rousseau, revealing revolutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047275047X
• ISBN13: 9780472750474
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"