{"product_id":"outlines-of-an-historical-view-of-the-progress-of-the-human-mind-9780578016665","title":"Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind","description":"Perhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future \"emancipated from its chains\" and led by \"the progress of reason\" and \"the establishment of liberty\". Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an \"elate and giddy optimist\", Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e G. Langer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780578016665\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"G. Langer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40406441754739,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":48.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_982f9fe0-9572-4321-a9ee-15377f89bf1f.jpg?v=1662040459","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/outlines-of-an-historical-view-of-the-progress-of-the-human-mind-9780578016665","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}