Montesquieu: Discourses, Dissertations, and Dialogues on Politics, Science, and Religion, Hardcover - David W. Carrithers

A number of Montesquieu's lesser-known discourses, dissertations and dialogues are made available to a wider audience, for the first time fully tra...

A vital resource for students of the Enlightenment. The volume provides English translations - the first in nearly all cases - of varied and insigh...

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David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what i...

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): David HumeNumber of pages: 129Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 145 x 222 x 15Cover type: HardbackE...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles De Secondat MontesquieuTranslator: Thomas NugentThis treatise on political theory, originally published anonymously...

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How aesthetics--understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity--might become the primary discourse for political and social engagem...

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