The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Carl L. Becker - Books - Yale University Press - 9780300101508 - November 10, 2003
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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers 2 Revised edition


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Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that they "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials".


192 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 10, 2003
ISBN13 9780300101508
Publishers Yale University Press
Pages 208
Dimensions 129 × 196 × 12 mm   ·   196 g
Language English  

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