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Book SynopsisThe author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit modern. In the first volume he traces the transformation they brought about in religion, ethics, aesthetics, science, politics, economics, and self-
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION: FROM ART TO THE MAKING OF THE "ESPRIT PHILOSOPHIQUE", pg. xi*FROM PHILOSOPHER TO PHILOSOPHE, pg. 3*FONTENELLE AND THE PHILOSOPHIC SPIRIT, pg. 26*THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS AS SEEN BY THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, pg. 35*THE REGENCY, pg. 87*THE ENGLISH INFLUENCE, pg. 120*FOREWORD, pg. 175*RELIGION TO HOLBACH AND HELVETIUS, pg. 177*ETHICS TO ROUSSEAU, pg. 240*ESTHETICS TO DIDEROT, pg. 279*POLITICS, pg. 313*"MxURS", "LOIS", AND ECONOMICS, pg. 435*SCIENCE TO BUFFON, pg. 516*PATHS TO THE SELF, pg. 583*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 652*INDEX OF NAMES, pg. 671*INDEX OF IDEAS, pg. 685
