A wicked company [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten radicalism of the European Enlightenment / / Philipp Blom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459560203321
• Autore: Blom Philipp <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Basic Books, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-87253-2; 9786612872532; 0-465-03258-3; 0-465-02278-2
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 944.034
• Soggetti: Enlightenment; Radicalism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""FATHERS AND SONS""; ""1. City of Lights""; ""2. Journeys""; ""3. Encyclpedie: Grand Ambitions""; ""4. Chez M. Holbach""; ""5. Audacity""; ""6. Christianity Unveiled""; ""7. Only the Wicked Man Lives Alone""; ""MARVELOUS MACHINES""; ""8. Le Bon David""; ""9. A Natural Philosophy""; ""10. Sheikhs of the Rue Royale""; ""11. Grandval""; ""12. The Bear""; ""THE ISLAND OF LOVE""; ""13. Crime and Punishment""; ""14. The Most Ungrateful Dogg in the World""; ""15. Fame and Fate""; ""16. The Empress and the Bean King""; ""17. Sex in Paradise""; ""18. Fifty Hired Priests""""Epilogue: A Stolen Revolution""; ""A Glossary of Protagonists""; ""A Very Selective Bibliography""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,