The party of humanity : Essays in the French enlightment. /
By Peter Gay.
- New York : Borzoi Books Alfred. A. Knopf.
- Xiii, 290 p. ; 21 cm.
To Richard Hofstadter in friendship With supercover
Index: p. I-VIII
Contents: Part One: I. The Philosophe in his dictionary. 1. The man in his book. 2. The book in its culture. II. Voltaire's Idées républicaines: From detection to interpretation. III. Voltaire's Anti-Semitism. Part Two: Toward Synthesis. IV. The Unity of the French enlightment. V. Three stageg on love's way: Rousseau, laclos, Diderot. VI. Rheoric and politics in the French Revolution. Part Three: VII. Carl Becker's heavenly city. VIII. Reading about Rousseau. 1. A Survey of the literature. 2. A blueprint for a biography. IX. The party of humanity.