Generations of Reason: A Family's Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England

by Joan L. Richards

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family

This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300255497
• ISBN13: 9780300255492
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"