Persian Letters: With Related Texts, Montesquieu

Автор: Seneca, Fantham Elaine
Название: Selected Letters
ISBN: 0199533210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199533213
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca`s letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca`s personal and political life in the time of Nero.

Автор: Montesquieu
Название: Persian Letters: With Related Texts
ISBN: 1624661815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781624661815
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: A classic work of the European Enlightenment--and one of the most popular, if scandalous, in its day--the Persian Letters captures, in an engaging epistolary format, the transformational spirit of the era. Amid an ongoing tale rife with sex, violence, and wit, the work addresses a diverse range of topics from human nature and the origins of society, to the nature and role of religious belief, the role of women, statecraft, justice, morality, and human identity. With skill and artistry, Raymond MacKenzie`s stunning new translation accurately reflects the mood and character of the work. In his richly conceived Introduction, MacKenzie seamlessly weaves together an overview of the period with details of Montesquieu`s life, including the influences that inspired the Persian Letters, the character and power of the book, and its reception. This edition also includes a Calendar of the Persian Letters, a Bibliography of Works in English, and a Bibliography of Works in French. Related texts provide insight into the legacy of the Persian Letters . They include selections from works by George Lyttelton, Voltaire, Oliver Goldsmith, and Maria Edgeworth.

Автор: Voltaire
Название: Letters concerning the English Nation
ISBN: 019955532X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199555321
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have place the Letters among the great Augustan satires. Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain.

He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French. This edition restores for the modern reader Voltaire's own English text, allowing us to appreciate him as a stylist at first hand. It is the only critical edition of the original text and, as well as providing an introduction and notes, it includes intriguing accounts of Voltaire by contemporary English ovservers.

Автор: Robert Metcalf
Название: Philosophy as Agon: A Study of Plato`s Gorgias and Related Texts
ISBN: 0810137984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810137981
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Philosophy as Ag?n: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic dialogue.Metcalf challenges prevailing interpretations according to which the ag?n (contest or struggle) between the interlocutors in the dialogues is inessential to Plato's philosophical purpose, or simply a reflection of the cultural background of ancient Greek life. Instead, he argues that Plato understands philosophy as essentially agonistic—involving the adversarial engagement of others in dialogue such that one's integrity is put to the test through this engagement, and where the ag?n is structured so as to draw adversaries together in agreement about the matters at issue, though that agreement is always open to future contest.Based on a careful reading of the Gorgias and related Socratic dialogues, such as Apology and Theaetetus, Metcalf contends that ag?n is indispensable to the critique of prevailing opinions, to the transformation of the interlocutor through shame-inducing refutation, and to philosophy as a lifelong training (ask?sis) of oneself in relation to others.

Автор: Edited by E. S. de Beer
Название: The Correspondence of John Locke, Volume 1 Introduction, Letters 1-461
ISBN: 0199573611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199573615
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: E. S. de Beer`s eight-volume edition of the correspondence of John Locke is a classic of modern scholarship. The intellectual range of the correspondence is universal, covering philosophy, theology, medicine, history, geography, economics, law, politics, travel and botany. This first volume covers the years 1650 to 1679.