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A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
de Blom, Philipp
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- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465014534
- ISBN 13
- 9780465014538
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2010. xx, 361 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Acclaimed historian, Philipp Blom, retraces the fortunes and characters of the men, that from the 1750s to the 1770s in the Paris salon of Baron Paul Thirty Holback had debated with intellectual daring and produced revolutionary ideas. These brilliant minds full of wit, courage, and humanity in their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment based on atheism, passion, empathy, and a compellingly insightful perspective on society." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Fathers and sons. City of lights; Journeys; Encyclope die: grand ambitions; Chez M. Holbach; Audacity; Christianity unveiled; Only the wicked man lives alone; Marvelous machines. Le bon David; A natural philosophy; Sheikhs of the Rue Royale; Grandval; The bear; The island of love. Crime and punishment; The most ungrateful dogg in the world; Fame and fate; The empress and the Bean King; Sex in paradise; Fifty hired priests; A stolen revolution.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Sinopsis
Philipp Blom is a writer, editor, literary translator, broadcaster, and journalist. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Oxford University. He is the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Vertigo Years , Encyclopédie , and To Have and to Hold . He frequently contributes articles to the Financial Times , the Independent , and the Guardian , among others.
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- Título
- A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
- Autor
- Blom, Philipp
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0465014534
- ISBN 13
- 9780465014538
- Editorial
- Basic Books; Perseus
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- COLLECTIBLE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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