Esthetics of the Moment Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment |
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| Author:
| Kavanagh, Thomas M. |
| Series title: | Critical Authors and Issues Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-3379-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future.
Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future.