18th Century
The Age of Enlightenment blazes with revolutionary ideas about human nature, knowledge, and society, played out against a backdrop of powdered wigs, sailing ships, and candlelit salons. Here you'll find philosophical treatises that shaped modern thought alongside tales of adventure and scandal from an era when reason and passion collided in spectacular ways.
18th Century Book Summaries
Les liaisons dangereuses
Two aristocratic predators turn seduction into a blood sport, and their letters confess every kill.
Les liaisons dangereuses
Two aristocratic predators turn seduction into a blood sport, and their letters confess every kill.
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Kant's early map: everything in human life divides between awe and joy, from love to nations.
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Kant's early map: everything in human life divides between awe and joy, from love to nations.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.
Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.
Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.
