The heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers / by Carl L. Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Yale University. Mary Cady Tew fund.

Mary Cady Tew Fund.

Series:

Storrs lectures ; 1931.

Storrs Lecture. 1931

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy and religion--History--18th century.

Philosophy and religion.

History--Philosophy--18th century.

History.

History--Philosophy.

Filosofía moderna.

Siglo XVIII.

Historia--Filosofía.

Eighteenth century.

Local Subjects:

Filosofía moderna.

Siglo XVIII.

Historia--Filosofía.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Rubenfeld, Andrew Paul (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1932]

Summary:

Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials." In a new foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment.

Contents:

Climates of opinion

The laws of nature and of nature's God

The new history : philosophy teaching by example

The uses of posterity.

Notes:

"Lectures delivered in the School of law in Yale university on the Storrs foundation ... April, 1931"--Preface.

"Published on the Mary Cady Tew memorial fund."--1st prelim. leaf.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Lectures delivered in the School of law in Yale university on the Storrs foundation...April, 1931."--Pref.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is twenty-fourth printing, September 1964.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "History 10-11 Clark University 1964-1965 Andrew Paul Rubenfeld" on front flyleaf.

ISBN:

0300000170

OCLC:

260775