The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb

The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

Anthony Gottlieb

320 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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In a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of moder...

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