Reading the French Enlightenment
Subtitle: System and Subversion (Cambridge Studies in French)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521030960
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; History & Surveys - Modern; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; French; Europe; European - French; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Enlightenment--France; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism-European - French; European - General
First sentence: Systeme comes from a Latin word whose Greek roots mean "to stand with" and which refers to a constituted group or organization.