Maxims

La Rochefoucaul La Rochefoucaul

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Edité par St Augustine's Press, 2009

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This is the first-ever French-English edition of La Rochefoucauld?s Réflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales, long known in English simply as the Maxims. The translation, the first to appear in forty years, is completely new and aims ? unlike all previous versions ? at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word ? for example, amour-propre as ?self-love? ? as consistently throughout as good sense allows. This also means that the translators have made every effort to maintain La Rochefoucauld?s word order. This allows the reader the best vantage point for viewing La Rochefoucauld?s dramatic and paradoxical juxtapositions of words and ideas, juxtapositions of the utmost importance to understanding his thought. Despite the translation?s concern with literalness, careful attention has been paid to the nuances of the literary character of the Maxims. In addition, this work contains a series of detailed indices that will greatly aid the reader in finding just the right maxim, and an updated version, in English, of the original French index of the work.At the heart of La Rochefoucauld?s Maxims lies the attempt to disclose the great disparity between the exaggerated self-estimation of men and women and their actual condition. As La Rochefoucauld (1613?1680) unremittingly unmasks various pretenses, heelaborately exposes the complexity of motives which underlie and inform human conduct: whereas many endeavor to reveal a unity in plurality, La Rochefoucauld endeavors to reveal a plurality in unity. Playful, yet serious, humorous, ironic yet direct, poetic yet philosophical, the Maxims penetrate to themes at the center of reflection and judgment about the human situation. Worthy of study at any time, the Maxims are especially relevant in the strange times in which we live.This edition includes the 504 maxims of the definitive, fifth edition of 1678, along with 137 other maxims which were either withdrawn from earlier editions or published posthumously. In addition to the maxims, La Rochefoucauld?s self-portrait and Cardinal de Retz?s portrait of La Rochefoucauld are also included.…

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Titre
Maxims
Auteur
La Rochefoucaul La Rochefoucaul
Éditeur
St Augustine's Press
Année de publication
2009
État de l'article
Very Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1587314959
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781587314957

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