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Bezig met laden... The Age of Voltaire (1965)door Will Durant, Ariel Durant (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Amazing how much political, anti-cleric, philosophic, medical, and scientific development occurred in the 1700s. And mentions in passing enclosure in Britain -- first half of the eighteenth century (maybe staring in the end of the 1600s. ( ) Aside from the cursory first volume of "The Story of Civilization" entitled "Our Oriental Heritage" this series has been the backbone of my reading in the history of the Mediterranean basin, and of Europe. The prose is very good, and the information very well organised, with the short biographical sketches being quite informative. There are a reasonable number of illustrations, and the end-paper maps usually good enough. Not a quick read, but a very high quality answer to those who find cultural history "boring." As the Durants had already entitled the previous Volume "The Age of Louis XIV", a title they shared with one of Voltaire's works, they felt it just to use this title. And, the volume is an account of a period roughly coeval with bulk of the eminent French man of letter's life. Indeed his skeptical but well researched personal attitude is the tone of European intellectual life portrayed here..... geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)The Story of Civilization (Volume 9) Is opgenomen inBevat
The Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of The Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the English ideas that inspired the Enlightenment in France-skepticism, scientific experiment, constitutional government, "natural rights," and individual liberty; the salons of Paris, where the wits and thinkers of all Europe gathered to exchange ideas; the philosophes-intellectuals, playwrights, and poets who consulted and consorted with kings and queens; Voltaire himself-the incarnation of the Enlightenment and a devotee of reason who still defended religious faith; Mme. Pompadour, patron of the philosophes, who seduced King Louis XV and through him influenced French policy; the Augustan Age in English literature-Alexander Pope's poetry, Jonathan Swift's satires, and the novels of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding; and the growing parasitism of the aristocracy and rising power of the commercial class. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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