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The Secular City
Overview
Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume, all by distinguished eighteenth century specialists, illustrate the elaboration of that vision, both in the planning and depiction of actual cities and in the speculation on social justice to which Voltaire in particular devoted himself. Yet even in him, secularization is never total, and the persistence of a displaced religious, even messianic strain in the Enlightenment is also illustrated in a variety of writers, culminating in the contradictions of the French Revolution.
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- ISBN-13: 9780859894166
- ISBN-10: 0859894169
- Publisher: University of Exeter Press
- Publish Date: December 1994
- Dimensions: 9.32 x 6.23 x 0.86 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.23 pounds
- Page Count: 259
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