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Frederick Binkerd Artz
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An edition of The Enlightenment in France (1968)

The Enlightenment in France

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This is an introduction to the principle writers of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century France. French thinkers of this century made a long series of devastating attacks on old ideas, usages, and institutions that had been handed down from the past. And, at the same time, these thinkers proposed a series of thorough-going reforms in social, economic, political, religious, and educational ideas and institutions. France was the center of the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, but there were important thinkers that belonged to the movement in other countries, such as Vico and Beccaria in Italy; Lessing, Herder, and Kant in Germany; and Hume, Adam Smith, and Bentham in Britain. France, though, took the lead, and, outside of France, there were no thinkers of quite the influence of the French writers, Voltaire and Rousseau. The whole climate of opinion was changed in France and the rest of Western Europe by these publicists and propagandists, or as they were commonly called, the Philosophes. The Eighteenth Century in France began with certain currents of opinion in the ascendency, namely, divine right and absolute monarchy, uniformity of religious opinion (Gallicanism in France), a controlled economy (Mercantilism), and Classicism in art and literature. And the Eighteenth Century ended with a widespread belief in some form of representative and Liberal government, with the idea that religion is an individual matter, with Laissez-faire economics, and with growing Romanticism in the arts. This change of opinion was largely due to the Philosophes. Napoleon once said that "cannons destroyed the feudal order but ink destroyed the old monarchy." That is too simple an explanation. The French Revolution was actually the result of both: abuses of all kinds in the political, economic, and social order of the Old Regime and propaganda for all types of change. In spite of the excesses of the French Revolution and the Conservative reaction that followed it, the Philosophes' ideas of Liberalism and democracy went on to mold much of the thinking and institutions of the Western World.

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The Enlightenment in France
1998, Kent State University Press
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The Enlightenment in France
1968, Kent State University Press
in English
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The enlightenment in France
1968, Kent State University Press
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Cover of: The Enlightenment in France
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1968, Kent State University Press
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1968, Kent State University Press
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Table of Contents

The precursors of the philosophes
The nature of the Enlightenment in France
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Diderot
Other French reformers
A philosophe apart, Rousseau
Conclusion.

Edition Notes

First edition, seventh printing 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-162).

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
914.4/03/34
Library of Congress
B1925.E5 A78 1998eb

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[electronic resource] /
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1 online resource (ix, 166 pages) :
Number of pages
166

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Open Library
OL26252963M
ISBN 10
0585282412, 1612778801, 0873380320
ISBN 13
9780585282411, 9781612778808
OCLC/WorldCat
45728702

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