Wicked Company
Freethinkers and Friendship in pre-Revolutionary Paris
$46.26
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2012
Summary
From the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d’Holbach was an epicenter of debate, intellectual daring and revolutionary ideas, uniting around one table vivid personalities from Denis Diderot, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, the radical ex-priest Guillaume Raynal, the Italian Count Beccaria and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who later turned against his friends.
It was a moment of astonishing racialism in European thought, so uncompromising and bold that it was viciously opposed by ri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780220109 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780220103 |
| Author: | Philipp Blom |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 137mm x 217mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Philipp Blom
Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg and trained as an historian in Vienna and Oxford. He is the author of To Have and to Hold, a history of collectors and collecting, and Encyclopedia. He writes regularly for journals and newspapers in Europe and the United States. He lives in Vienna.
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