The birth of the modern mind an intellectual history of the 17th & 18th Centuries /

Presents twenty-four lectures that focus "on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800--a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still."

Main Author: Kors, Alan Charles.
Other Authors: Teaching Company.
Format: Cassette
Language: English
Published: Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., [1998]
Physical Description: 12 audiocassettes (approximately 720 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Series: Great courses on tape (Audiocassette)
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