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Title: The dream of enlightenment : the rise of modern philosophy / Anthony Gottlieb.

Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016
Edition: First edition.

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 Warrenton Adult Non-Fiction  190 GOT    AVAILABLE  ---
Description: xi, 301 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: Presents a chronicle of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau, detailing the role of then-amateur philosophers in shaping Western intellectual pursuits against a backdrop of religious upheaval and the rise of Galilean science.
Contents: The Kingdome of darknesse -- Chronological chart -- Starting afresh : Descartes -- The monster of Malmesbury : Hobbes -- A breeze of the future : Spinoza -- Philosophy for the British : Locke -- An interlude on a comet : Bayle -- The best of all possible compromises : Leibniz -- A treatise of animal nature : Hume -- What has the Enlightenment ever done for us? : Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Philosophes.
Bibliog.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-281) and index.
Subject: Philosophy, Modern -- History.
ISBN/ISSN: 9780871404435 (hardcover)
0871404435 (hardcover)

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