Condorcet"A historical work of the most primary importance, an intensely provocative and lucid argument about the genesis of Condorcet's thinking and, in its relation of Condorcet's social theories to the intellectual and political world around him, an important contribution to our understanding of the Enlightenment and the later decades of the eighteenth century. Alan Charles Kors, Journal of Modern History Published 1982. Binding of book is semi loose.