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The Eighteenth Century 1714 – 1815

John Beresford Owen

History

The Eighteenth century was on of intense transition and achievement. After the wearying turbulence of the seven

england, enlightenment, europe

The Complete Romances of Voltaire

Voltaire

Philosophy

In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educat

collection, enlightenment, romance, satire

Micromégas And Other Short Fictions

Voltaire

Classic Fiction

Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and

collection, enlightenment, fantasy, french, philosophy, scifi

Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Philosophy

Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary is a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an enormously

atheism, enlightenment, french, historiography, polemics

The New Science of Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

Philosophy

A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vicos New Science is

enlightenment, epistemology, history, italian

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

28 Selected Chapters

Edward Gibbon

History

Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisp

enlightenment, polemics, roman, rome

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

Philosophy

Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title

enlightenment, liberal

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Philosophy

Kants Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and chall

enlightenment, german, trancendental idealism

The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophy

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published

enlightenment, french, revolution, socialism

Works of Spinoza

Political Treatise, Theologico-politiacal Treatise

Baruch De Spinoza

Philosophy

The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of

enlightenment, ethics, latin, rationalism