French Writers and their Society 1715–1800

Mason, Haydn

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“…He documented the growth in both the ownership and the size of libraries, and he also traced the transformation of the content in several books from the religious to the secular, frequently with incendiary potential. 8 Alexis De Tocqueville remarked that French literary life in the Ancien Regime did prepare Frenchmen for eventual political action. The historian Dena Goodman strongly reinforced this remark.…”

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The functioning of a civil society allows for a variety of possibilities. At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enlightened literature and the few journals reached only a small segment of the Hungarian population. Correspondence, a significant part of civil society, compensated for what was missing. The acceptance of free thought and pluralism by the elite prepared the way for their eventual acceptance by a growing number of individuals during the Age of Reform.

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th e cam b ri dg e h i story of e i g h te e nth-c e ntury p ol i t i cal th ou g h t This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Western political thought during the European Enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. Every major theme in eighteenth-century political thought is covered in a series of essays at once scholarly and accessible, and the essays are complemented by extensive guides for further reading, and brief biographical notices of the major characters featured in the text, including Rousseau, Montesquieu, Kant, and Edmund Burke. Of interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards, this volume chronicles one of the most exciting and rewarding of all periods in the development of Western thinking about politics. mark goldie is a Senior University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

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French Writers and their Society 1715–1800

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