Originally published in 1959. This book examines the French Enlightenment by analyzing critical thought in eighteenth-centruy France. It examines the philosophe

This interdisciplinary study explores the concept of the individual human being as it evolved within the philosophies of the French Enlightenment and how notion

This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of A

An important reassessment of the afterlife of the Enlightenment and its continuing relevance in twenty-first century France.