Persian Letters

Name: Persian Letters
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ISBN: 9780872204904

ISBN-10: 0872204901

ISBN-13: 9780872204904

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Baron de la Brede Montesquieu, George R. Healy

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Based on the 1758 edition, George R Healy's accurate and lively translation of Montesquieu's provocative fiction retains Montesquieu's paragraphing and is accompanied by a unique and handy analytical table of contents. In his perceptive Introduction, Healy presents The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work designed more to explore than to resolve two problems of great urgency for eighteenth century thought: that of discovering universals, or at least constants, amid the diversity of human culture and society, and of confronting the proposition that there are now values in human relationships except those imposed by force or agreed upon in self-interested…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Translator's Introduction


Selected Bibliography


Summary of Contents


The Persian Calendar


Note on the Translation


Some Reflections on The Persian Letters


Introduction


Letters