Brave New World of the Enlightenment

Provides a brilliant introduction to the thought of the Enlightenment, illuminating with a rare intelligence the ideas that brought forth the Enlightenment and the ensuing confusion of our age. In a sustained and incisive critique, Louis I. Bredvold distils and expounds the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Condillac, Hartley, Helvetius, Diderot, and Rousseau.