The royal civil engineer Nicolas- Antoine Boulanger (1722–1759) represents a peculiarity within the French Enlightenment. Largely unknown during his lifetime, he rose to become an Enlightenment figure of European prominence after his untimely death. This study takes a systematic look at Boulanger for the first time against the background of his posthumous staging as a radical philosophe and asks why a dead man could make such headlines.
Martin Kriechbaum
Boulanger, Nicolas Antoine 18. Jahrhundert Aufklärung Geschichtsphilosophie Théorie de la terre Boulanger Nicolas Antoine 18th century Enlightenment Philosophy of history Théorie de la terre