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Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion »

Authors: Julie Chandler Hayes
ISBN-13: 9780521030960, ISBN-10: 052103096X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

An ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse.

	Acknowledgments
	Author's note
	Prologue - despotic Enlightenment	1
	Introduction - the critique of systematic reason	3
1	"Systeme" - origins and itineraries	22
2	The epistolary machine	58
3	Physics and figuration in Du Chatelet's Institutions de physique	86
4	Condillac and the identity of the other	111
5	Diderot - changing the system	142
	Conclusion - labyrinths of Enlightenment	184
	Notes	192
	Bibliography	224
	Index	240