by Juan Antonio Cabezas · SÍLEX EDICIONES, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485041886
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«Jovellanos: el fracaso de la Ilustración» is the biography of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos written by Juan Antonio Cabezas, published by Sílex in paperback.
This biography of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, thinker, politician and scholar of 18th-century Spain, analyses his role in the Enlightenment and the circumstances that explain the failure of his ideals. The author attempts to clarify the darkest passages of his life and offers a complex and human vision of the figure.
First edition published in 1985. It consists of 224 pages. It belongs to the series «Retratos de antaño» and to the collection «La biografía histórica»; includes bibliography (pp. 217-218).
A book for readers interested in the history of Spain, the Enlightenment and biographies of its main protagonists.
