The European Mind, 1680-1715: The Critical Years

A study of Enlightenment thought between 1690 and 1715, this book covers the subject in such a way as to be an introduction to the wide range of radical, reactionary and controversial ideas which so characterize this period of history. The book was originally published in 1935 in French and accounts for the crisis of the European mind by describing the religious, philosophical, moral, scientific and artistic literature of the period.