The birth of the modern mind : the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries /

In twenty-four lectures (each 30 minutes in length), Professor Alan Charles Kors focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800, a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Ko...

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Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Other Authors: Kors, Alan Charles
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [1998]
Series:Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
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