Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)

Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)

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Book Description
Based on the 1761 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. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

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Text: English, French (translation)

Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)

Persian Letters (Penguin Classics),Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu,C. J. Betts,Penguin Classics,0140442812,Classics,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Biography: general,Essays, journals, letters & other prose works,Fiction / Literary,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,Scottish Gaelic

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