Citton, Yves:
L'envers de la liberté : L'invention d'un imaginaire spinoziste dans la France des Lumières

Paris : Éditions Amsterdam, 2006. - 585 pp.

Contains bibliography: 531-559
Other editions / translations: Englisch/English (2007)

Literature type: Monographs
Language: French
Thematic areas: Overall view / introduction, Reception history, Materialism / Marxism
Subject (individuals): Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' ; Bayle, Pierre ; Bergier, Nicolas Sylvestre ; Boulainvillers, Henri de ; Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de ; Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine de ; Descartes, René ; Deschamps, Léger Marie ; Diderot, Denis ; Fénélon, François de Salignac de La Mothe ; Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouyer de ; Gaultier, Abraham ; Helvétius, Claude Adrien ; Hobbes, Thomas ; Holbach, Paul-Henry Tiry baron d' ; Lamy, François ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm ; Malebranche, Nicolas ; Meslier, Jean ; Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de ; Pluqut, François ; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ; Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers de ; Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de

Reviews: Carvajal, Julián (2007)

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "In order to define the foundations of a liberty that does'n make itself blind for the natural and social conditions, this work proposes to explore the tradition of thought which has been hold the most radical enemy of free thought, 'spinozism', as is has developped in France from 1670 to 1790.... Fifteen brief chapters propose 'a methodological reconstruction' of the whole of Spinoza's sytem, from its metaphysical fudaments up to it's esthetical consequences, in passing through its epistemological, psychological, ethical and poltical implictions - the bok constituing a highly accessible introduction to Spinoza's thought, translated from its geomerical Latin into the nice French of the Saloons" (enveloppe, backside).

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