Detalls del llibre
Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume, all by distinguished eighteenth century specialists, illustrate the elaboration of that vision, both in the planning and depiction of actual cities and in the speculation on social justice to which Voltaire in particular devoted himself. Yet even in him, secularization is never total, and the persistence of a displaced religious, even messianic strain in the Enlightenment is also illustrated in a variety of writers, culminating in the contradictions of the French Revolution.
- ISBN13 9780859894166
- ISBN10 0859894169
- Pàgines 243
- Any Edició 1994
- Fecha de publicación 03/05/1994
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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- University of Exeter Press (1994)
- 9780859894166



