Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar: Simon Rodriguez and the American Essay at Revolution

by RonaldBriggs (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $145.78

  Focuses on the writings and life of Simon Rodriguez, early tutor to the hero of Latin American independence Simon Bolivar and an accomplished essayist in his own right. This book places Rodriguez in the pantheon of important writers who influenced philosophical thought during the upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.