Often the target of uninformed or hostile criticism, the Enlightenment has been characterized as "shallow and pretentious intellectualism" and "unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition." In this provocative book--at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic--Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusion from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--to the esteem they deserve.
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Often the target of uninformed or hostile criticism, the Enlightenment has been characterized as "shallow and pretentious intellectualism" and "unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition." In this provocative book--at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic--Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusion from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--to the esteem they deserve.
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Good. Size: 7x5x0; Paperback in good condition. Price marked off cover; shelfwear, occasional markings. Binding is tight and sturdy, text mostly clean and always readable.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Hard cover in blue boards with gilt lettering; Very Good with tight binding and bright, crisp pages. Dust Jacket is Good+ with shallow chipping on all four corners and some browing of the the cover; price clipped; covered in protective mylar sleeve.
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Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Navy blue cloth with gold-color lettering on front cover, gold-color lettering and red decorations on spine, xiv, 290 pp., index [9 pp. ], illustrated jacket in Brodart sleeve. Small remainder mark on top and bottom edge of text block, the letter "H" stamped in red ink on front free endpaper, previous owner's name dated 1973 on half-title page, clean text, tight binding. Jacket is age-toned and neatly price-clipped. "A fresh look at the great heroes of the French Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--and revises some of our commonplace notions about their character and influence."
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8vo, pp. xiii, 289, vix. Index. Navy blue cloth stamped in red and gilt. Owner's bookplate on pastedown. Cover slightly worn at ends of spine, o/w a nice copy.
