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Montesquieu : Let There Be Enlightenment by Philip Stewart and Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Montesquieu : Let There Be Enlightenment, Paperback by Volpilhac-Auger, Catherine; Stewart, Philip (EDT), ISBN 1009249088, ISBN-13 9781009249089, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book brings to light the way in which basic ideas of the Enlightenment were invented and how a French aristocrat discovered the foundations of modern democracies. A life devoted to the study of law, science, and the histories of all societies made it possible for Montesquieu to show how liberty was the thing most at stake in political thought.
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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009249088
ISBN-139781009249089
eBay Product ID (ePID)23073928954
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Book TitleMontesquieu : Let there Be Enlightenment
Number of PagesXiii, 242 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicHistory & Theory
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science
AuthorPhilip Stewart, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2022-024077
Dewey Edition23/eng/20220605
Reviews'As a biography, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger's Montesquieu is a fine specimen. As a work of history, however, it is even better. ... What emerges from Volpilhac-Auger's well-documented work is a Montesquieu who is much diminished in his exceptionalism ... And in writing what is ostensibly a biography, Volpilhac-Auger has managed far more: her Montesquieu throws new light on intellectual and cultural milieux one might have thought familiar, as well as puts others more decisively on the radar. Our map of the eighteenth century is far richer for it.' Shiru Shiru, Metascience
Dewey Decimal848/.509
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Monsieur de La Brède (1689-1705); 2. From La brède to Secondat de Montesquieu (1705-1713); 3. From Secondat to Montesquieu (1713-1721); 4. Taking Wing (1722-1727); 5. Europe on the horizon (1728-1731); 6. A new departure (1731-1738); 7. 'A labor of twenty years' (1736-1748); 8. The march to glory (1749-1755); 9. The final battle.
SynopsisSince the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed, culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion. Since 1998, this new edition of the complete works has considerably modified what was known about Montesquieu and his procedures, eliciting new translations and further studies. Additionally, several thousand manuscript pages were made public in 1994 and continue to generate further scholarly inquiry. The author of this compact biography, originally published by Gallimard 2017, is the director of the critical edition of the works and the most qualified scholar of Montesquieu. At once an introduction to Montesquieu's thought and a synthesis of current knowledge about his life and work, this book is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the European agenda., This book brings to light the way in which basic ideas of the Enlightenment were invented and how a French aristocrat discovered the foundations of modern democracies. A life devoted to the study of law, science, and the histories of all societies made it possible for Montesquieu to show how liberty was the thing most at stake in political thought.
LC Classification NumberPQ2012.V65213 2022
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