The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

“Original and beautifully written.”—Ruth Scurr, Wall Street Journal

What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? Joanna Stalnaker turns our usual perspective on the Enlightenment on its head, bringing to light a set of works written at the end of the Old Regime and at the end of their authors’ l...