Was He One of Them?
J.G.A. Pocock, 23 February 1995
Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vols I-VI
edited by David Womersley.
Allen Lane, 1114 pp., £75, November 1994,0 7139 9124 0 Show More
edited by David Womersley.
Allen Lane, 1114 pp., £75, November 1994,
“... his writings in French is needed) – is a critique of d’ Alembert’s Discours préliminaire à l’encyclopédie. Gibbon criticises d’Alembert for exalting natural and mathematical philosophy above the historical imagination, which while searching for causes takes infinite delight in the tangled ironies of human behaviour. This is less proto-Romantic ... ”
