The Rest Is Silence by Joanna Stalnaker HARDBACK 9780300181340

Name: The Rest Is Silence by Joanna Stalnaker HARDBACK 9780300181340
Brand: Yale University Press

Yale University Press

The Rest Is SilenceEnlightenment Philosophers Facing Death\nAuthor(s): Joanna Stalnaker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300181340, 978-0300181340\nSynopsis\nA moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment\n\nOriginal and beautifully [url] Scurr, Wall Street Journal\n\nWhat would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? Joanna Stalnaker turns our usual perspective on the Enlightenment on its head, bringing to light a set of works written at the end of the Old Regime and at the end of their authors lives. These works, all written before the French Revolution, cast a retrospective glance over the intellectual movement their authors participated in, and over the authors own lives and works. Stalnaker shows that the beauty of these works stems from their authors eff.