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The Persian Letters
Montesquieu
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Description for The Persian Letters
Paperback. Translator(s): Healy, George R. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
273
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872204904
SKU
V9780872204904
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About Montesquieu
George R. Healy is Professor Emeritus of History, College of William and Mary.
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