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Enlightenment Aberrations : Error and Revolution in France by Bates, David W. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In Enlightenment Aberrations, David W. Bates shows that error was a complex, important, and by no means entirely negative concept in Enlightenment thought, one that had a decisive influence in revolutionary debates on political identity and national history. What can it mean to write a history of error? In Bates's view all philosophy, insofar as its project is the search for truth, begins in error. If truth is posited as a goal to be attained, not as a given of some kind, then error assumes a ce
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- Author
- Bates, David W.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501726811
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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