The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment by Peter Gay

The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment

Peter Gay

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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...

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