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THE PERSIAN LETTERS
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| By: |
Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu, George R. Healy (Editor), George R. Healy |
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Hardback |
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£38.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
087220491X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780872204911 |
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| Publisher: |
HACKETT PUBLISHING CO, INC |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 1999 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
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. |
| 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 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. |
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US |
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
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