18世纪哲学家的天城

by Carl Lotus Becker, 卡尔·贝克尔, 何兆武 (Translator)

本书是美国著名历史学家卡尔·贝克尔于1931年在耶鲁大学所做的斯多尔斯讲座的文稿。这本才华横溢、妙趣横生的小书提出：伏尔泰、休谟、狄德罗和洛克等通常被视为近代意识形态先驱的18世纪启蒙思想家，他们所缔造的“理性时代”实际上远不是理性的，这些哲学家从中世纪的舆论气候出发，以新的材料重新建造了另一座奥古斯丁式的“天城”。本书出版后，在学界引起轰动，被《美国历史评论》誉为20世纪思想史上的经典著作之一。

172 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2023

About the author

Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian. He is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University. His assertion that philosophies, in the "Age of Reason," relied far more upon Christian assumptions than they cared to admit, has been influential, but has also been much attacked,

Cornell has recognized his work as an educator by naming one of its five new residential colleges the Carl Becker House.