The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)

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

ISBN 10: 0872204901 / ISBN 13: 9780872204904

Verlag: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1999

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Inhaltsangabe:

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 culture 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

George R. Healy is Professor Emeritus of History, College of William and Mary.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)
Verlag: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket