The final glory : 1774-83 Death and the philosophers : 1774-1807 On the eve : 1774-89 The anatomy of revolution : 1774-89 The political debacle 1783-98.Īthens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County LibraryĪzalea Regional Library System: O'Kelly Memorial Libraryīartram Trail Regional Library: Mary Willis Libraryīartram Trail Regional Library: Thomson-McDuffie County Libraryīrooks County Public Library: Brooks County Public Library Headquarters The Industrial Revolution The political drama : 1756-92 The English people : 1756-89 The age of Reynolds 1756-90 England's neighbors : 1756-89 The literary scene : 1756-89 Samuel Johnson : 1709-84 - The collapse of feudal France : 1774-89. Italia felix : 1715-59 Portugal and Pombal : 1706-82 Spain and the Enlightenment : 1700-88 Vale, Italia : 1760-89 The Enlightenment in Austria : 1756-90 Music reformed Mozart - Islam and the Slavic East : 1715-96. The life of the state The art of life Voltaire patriarch : 1758-78 Rousseau romantic : 1756-62 Rousseau philosopher Rousseau outcast : 1762-67 - The Catholic South : 1715-89. Rousseau wanderer : 1712-56 The Seven Years' War : 1756-63 - France before the deluge : 1757-74. The military exploits, the elegance and corruption of court life, the diversity of cultural, economic, and social events, the prejudices and mores of the entire European scene-surely it is a measure of the Durants' comprehensive mastery that so vast a panorama has been handled with so many splendidly interwoven episodes, judicious portraits, and contemporary ramifications.Prelude. The gallery swells with figures as important as the star performer himself: Goethe, Johnson, Voltaire, Catherine and Frederick, Mozart, Kant, Reynolds.
Around the towering and perplexing personality of Rousseau who set spinning the whirlpool of ideology, both Left and Right, the authors recreate in vivid narrative style the growth of eighteenth century intellectual, moral and political dissent, the summit and decline of autocratic rule, religious disenchantment and democratic stirrings, ""the role of genius in history, of man versus the mass and the state""-in short, that great and continuing debate of which we are now the troubled heirs. The Story of Civilization, with its tenth volume, Rousseau and Revolution.
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