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A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
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A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment Hardcover - 2010

by Philipp Blom


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The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In A Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional group of friends. All brilliant minds, full of wit, courage, and insight, their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment based on atheism, passion, reason, and truly humanist thinking. A startlingly relevant work of narrative history, A Wicked Company forces us to confront with new eyes the foundational debates about modern society and its future.

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  • Title A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
  • Author Philipp Blom
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Pages 361
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York
  • Date 2010-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465014538 / 0465014534
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.47 x 1.34 in (24.13 x 16.43 x 3.40 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010023350
  • Dewey Decimal Code 944.034

About the author

Philipp Blom is the author of The Vertigo Years, Enlightening the World, and To Have and To Hold. He contributes articles to the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian, among others. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
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