History of ideas
Subtitle: Travel writing ; History of the book ; Englightenment and antiquity.
Contributors: Voltaire Foundation.
Series: SVEC -- 2005:01
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 18th century.; Enlightenment -- Europe.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; France -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Other titles: History of ideas ; Travel writing ; History of the book ; Englightenment and antiquity; History of ideas; Travel writing; History of the book; Englightenment and antiquity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.
Table of contents: value: Enlightenment uncertainties: moral, pedagogical and scientific debates of eighteenth-century France / Jean Bloch...et al.; value: Joseph banks, 'Journal of a tour in Holland', 1773 / Kees van Strien (ed.); value: Book censorship in eighteenth-century France and Rousseau's response / Raymond Birn; value: La mettrie on Descartes, Seneca and the Happy life / Eleni Filippaki; value: Casting the antique: behind the scenes at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture / Reed Benhamou.