The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine’s phrase, as ‘The Age of Reason’: an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randoml...
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List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Concepts of Order in the Eighteenth Century, their Scope and their Frailties; D.Donald PART I: THE ORDER...
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DAVID ADAMS Professor of French Enlightenment Studies, University of Manchester, UK BARBARA ANDERMAN Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of the History ...