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Author:
Valsania, Maurizio, 1965-
Title:
The limits of optimism : Thomas Jefferson's dualistic enlightenment / Maurizio Valsania.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
207 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826.
United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.
Enlightenment--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Enlightenment and dualism -- Optimism as certainty -- From faith to hope -- Nature and time as overwhelming powers -- Impossibility and despondency -- Dream, imagination, and expediency.
Series:
Jeffersonian America
ISBN:
0813931517 (e-book)
9780813931517 (e-book)
0813931444 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813931449 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)696603465
LCCN:
2010052849
Locations:
USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

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