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... Enlightenment thinker , as a thinker about , for , and of Enlightenment , he remains without peer . Whatever Enlightenment means , Condorcet lived , breathed , and radiated it ; he even died for it . Right now , when the meaning of ...
... Enlightenment thinker , as a thinker about , for , and of Enlightenment , he remains without peer . Whatever Enlightenment means , Condorcet lived , breathed , and radiated it ; he even died for it . Right now , when the meaning of ...
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... Enlightenment.4 My aim in this lecture is to view the meaning of Enlightenment afresh through Condorcet's eyes . This is a peculiarly disorienting experience , a perspective that is at once familiar and surpassingly strange . I hope to ...
... Enlightenment.4 My aim in this lecture is to view the meaning of Enlightenment afresh through Condorcet's eyes . This is a peculiarly disorienting experience , a perspective that is at once familiar and surpassingly strange . I hope to ...
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... Enlightenment writ large was built upon enlightenment writ small . In his capacity as Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences , Condorcet was charged to write eulogies for deceased academi- cians , continuing the ancient ...
... Enlightenment writ large was built upon enlightenment writ small . In his capacity as Perpetual Secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences , Condorcet was charged to write eulogies for deceased academi- cians , continuing the ancient ...
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Foundlings Lostlings Changelings | 1 |
Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany | 53 |
A E Housmans Rejected Addresses | 83 |
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