The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)

Charles de Secondat,baron de Montesquieu,George R. Healy,Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu,George Healy,Montesquieu, Baron de La Brede et de,Healy, George

ISBN 10: 0872204901 / ISBN 13: 9780872204904

Edité par Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1999

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Synopsis :

Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work of remarkable diversity designed more to explore a problem of great urgency for eighteenth century thought than to resolve it: that of discovering universals, or at least the pragmatic constants, amid the diversity of human ture and society, and of confronting the proposition that there are no values in human relationships except those imposed by force or agreed upon in self-interested conventions.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Persian Letters is a satirical novel in an epistolary form. Montesquieu narrates the experiences of two fictional Persians travelling through France. Through the characters, the barbarism of contemporary French life is analyzed from an outsider's perspective. He compares European and non-European societies, role of religion, systems of government, political authority, and the role of law.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)
Éditeur : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good