A Wicked Company
The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In A Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional group of friends. All brilliant minds, full of wit, courage, and insight, their thinking created a different an…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-465-02278-6
- EAN: 9780465022786
- Produktnummer: 22911404
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 856 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 99 J.
Über den Autor
Philipp Blom is the author of several award-winning books, including A Wicked Company, and The Vertigo Years, which has been made into a three-part television documentary. A frequent lecturer at European and American universities, he also contributes to international newspapers and hosts a radio show on Austrian national radio. Philipp Blom lives in Vienna.
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To Have and to Hold
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Bei Sturm am Meer
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Diebe des Lichts
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