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FENELON: TELEMACHUS
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| By: |
Frangois de Fenelon, Patrick Riley (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£88.00 |
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£77.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
052145042X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521450423 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 1994 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought |
| Pages: |
380 |
| Description: |
The most important work of 18th-century French political theory, and a commentary on Louis XIV's rule. |
| Synopsis: |
Fenelon's Telemachus (1699) is, alongside Bossuet's Politics, the most important work of political theory of the grand siecle in France. It was also the most widely read work of the time, influencing Montesquieu and Rousseau in its attempt to combine monarchism with republican virtues. Fenelon tells of the moral and political education of Telemachus, young son of Ulysses, by his tutor Mentor (the goddess Minerva in disguise). Telemachus visits every corner of the Mediterranean world and learns patience, courage, modesty and simplicity, the qualities he will need when he succeeds Ulysses as King of Ithaca. It is the story of the transformation of an egoistic young man into a model ruler, and is meant (among other things) as a commentary on the bellicosity and luxuriousness of Louis XIV. The present English edition follows closely that of Tobias Smollett published in 1776. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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