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9780465028658

A Wicked Company The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment

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    9780465028658

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    0465028659

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-05-08
  • Publisher: Basic Books

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Summary

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 Companyforces us to confront with new eyes the foundational debates about modern society and its future.

Author Biography

Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg and trained as a historian in Vienna and Oxford. The author of The Vertigo Years, Enlightening the World, and To Have and to Hold, he lives in Vienna.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. ix
Fathers and Sons
City of Lightsp. 1
Journeysp. 15
Encyclopédie: Grand Ambitionsp. 37
Chez M. Holbachp. 55
Audacityp. 75
Christianity Unveiledp. 91
Only the Wicked Man Lives Alonep. 113
Marvelous Machines
Le Bon Davidp. 133
A Natural Philosophyp. 151
Sheikhs of the Rue Royalep. 165
Grandvalp. 181
The Bearp. 199
The Island of Love
Crime and Punishmentp. 217
The Most Ungrateful Dogg in the Worldp. 231
Fame and Fatep. 245
The Empress and the Bean Kingp. 257
Sex in Paradisep. 271
Fifty Hired Priestsp. 291
Epilogue: A Stolen Revolutionp. 305
A Glossary of Protagonistsp. 319
A Very Selective Bibliographyp. 323
Notesp. 327
Indexp. 345
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