Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat

by Stephan Miller

In recent years there has been an extended debate about Enlightenment thought. Though many scholars have concluded that there were several "Enlightenments," some continue to make generalizations about the Englightenment and some speak about "the Enlightment agenda." After discussing the cult of the deathbed scene in eighteenth-century Britain and France, the author looks at three currents of Enlightment thought implicit in the deathbed "projects"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481406
• ISBN13: 9781611481402
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 219 Pages