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The limits of optimism : Thomas Jefferson's dualistic enlightenment / Maurizio Valsania.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valsania, Maurizio, 1965-
- Series:
- Jeffersonian America.
- Jeffersonian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--United States.
- Enlightenment.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the same time, it provides a corrective to the common though erroneous equation of Enlightenment thinking with rationalism and shallow optimism.
- Contents:
- Enlightenment and dualism
- Optimism as certainty
- From faith to hope
- Nature and time as overwhelming powers
- Impossibility and despondency
- Dream, imagination, and expediency.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585509
- 9781280490279
- 1280490276
- 9780813931517
- 0813931517
- OCLC:
- 784958292
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