Freedom in French Enlightenment thought
By: Mary Efrosini Gregory.
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures -- v. 177
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781433109393
Subjects: Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, -- baron de, -- 1689-1755 -- Criticism and interpretation; Diderot, Denis, -- 1713-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation; Voltaire, -- 1694-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation; Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, -- marquis de, -- 1743-1794 -- Criticism and interpretation; Political science -- France -- Philosophy; Philosophy, French -- 18th century
Description: "Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought examines how five eighteenth-century French theorists - Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Condorcet - kindled the flame of freedom in America and France. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually inspire the language in constitutions around the world."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.        ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Montesquieu; title: Diderot; title: Rousseau; title: Voltaire; title: Condorcet; title: Race.