The limits of optimism
Subtitle: Thomas Jefferson's dualistic enlightenment
By: Maurizio Valsania
Series: Jeffersonian America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780813931449; 9780813931517
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; Enlightenment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enlightenment and dualism; title: Optimism as certainty; title: From faith to hope; title: Nature and time as overwhelming powers; title: Impossibility and despondency; title: Dream, imagination, and expediency.