Publication

1999 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

60,750 words, Guess

Page Count

243 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98011650
  • Goodreads6379442
  • LibraryThing3211800

Classifications

  • LCCDC33.4 .H38 1999

Description

"Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightment thought, the rationalizing and classfying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyzes the writings of Denis Diderot, Emilie Du Chatelet, the abbe de Condillac, Buffon, d'Alembert, and numerous others, to argue for a new understanding of 'systematic reason' as complex, paradoxical, and ultimately liberating."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Systeme comes from a Latin word whose Greek roots mean "to stand with" and which refers to a constituted group or organization.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cambridge studies in French ;

Other Editions

  • Reading the French enlightenment: system and subversionCambridge University Press1999-01-01

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