Author: Charles-Louis de Secondat de MontesquieuPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Le Temple de Gnide
Author: Charles-Louis de Secondat de MontesquieuPublisher:
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The Personal and the Political
Author: Charles de Secondat baron de MontesquieuPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761840787
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Personal and the Political presents three fables written by social commentator and political thinker Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu: The Temple of Cnidus (on eros and justice), Lysimachus (on philosophy and imperial ambition), and Dialogue de Sylla et d'Eucrate (on the limits of political ambition). This work is author W.B. Allen's response to attempts that collapse Montesquieu's analysis of modern political philosophy into a general discussion of virtue and morality by raising anew the issues of true and false happiness and pleasures. Allen maintains that Montesquieu's fables demonstrate the continuing relevance of the issue of philosophical morality, and offer a reconciliation of the tension between philosophical morality and political morality. The Personal and the Political provides a translation of each fable (with parallel French text), a brief introduction and commentaries to develop the context in which each is written and the situations that they address. Each fable is suited to introduce Montesquieu's conceptions of ancient virtues and vices, and what they contribute to modern sensibilities.
Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment
Author: Fabienne MoorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351151266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
By examining nearly sixty works, the author traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some eighteenth-century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a century before it is habitually supposed to have existed. In the throes of momentous scientific, philosophical, and socioeconomic changes, Enlightenment authors turned to the past to revive sources such as Homer, the pastoral, Ossian, the Bible, and primitive eloquence, favoring music to construct alternatives to the world of reason. The result, the author argues, were prose poems, including F lon's Les Adventures de T maque, Montesquieu's Le Temple de Gnide, Rousseau's Le L te d'Ephraïm, Chateaubriand's Atala, as well as many lesser-known texts, most of which remain out of print. The author's treatment of Bible criticism and eighteenth-century religious reform movements reveal the often-neglected spiritual side of Enlightenment culture, and tracks its contribution to the period's reflection about language and poetic invention. The author includes in appendices four unusual texts adjudicating the merits of prose poems, making evidence of their controversial nature now accessible to readers.
Le Temple de Gnide. By the Baron de Montesquieu.
Author: CNIDUS.Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York
Author: Robert HoeLe Temple de Gnide. By the Baron de Montesquieu
Author: CNIDUS.Duchess du Maine. Mme. de Staal. Le Sage. Montesquieu. Adrienne Le Couvreur. Voltaire. Mme. Du Deffand. Chesterfield. Mme. Geoffrin. Franklin. Louis XV. Abbé Barthélemy
Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuvePublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws'
Author: Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839982969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of “separation of powers” and “balances and checks,” it provides the decisive response to the question of whether power in the nation-state can be limited in the aftermath of the Westphalian settlement of 1648. It describes a civilizational change through which power becomes domesticated, with built-in resistance to attempts to absolutize (or make total) political power. As such, it is the Bible of modern politics, now made more accessible to English readers than it ever has been.
Catalogue
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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French Engravers and Draughtsmen of the XVIIIth Century
Author: Lady Emilia Francis Strong DilkePublisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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