The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment

Author/Contributor(s):	Gay, Peter
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	10/01/1971
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Often the target of uninformed or hostile criticism, the Enlightenment has been characterized as "shallow and pretentious intellectualism" and "unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition." In this provocative book--at once a scholarly study and a vigorous polemic--Peter Gay sets out to shatter old myths, to sort out illusion from reality, and to restore the men of the Enlightenment--Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--to the esteem they deserve.