The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany.(Book review)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. By NEIL KENNY. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xiv+484 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-927136-4.

This book is destined to become a classic in the Field of early modern European intellectual history. In its chronological and linguistic range, with constant pointers to further territory which the author was unable to discuss if he wished to keep his project within reasonable bounds, it reads almost like a rare English version of those fundamentally authoritative doctorats d'etat or ...

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