Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (Lyon Ecole Normale Superieure)

Montesquieu

Let There Be Enlightenment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 235mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781009249096
• ISBN-10: 1009249096
• Artikelnr.: 65688424

Autorenporträt

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger is professor emerita at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lyon) and is the president of the Montesquieu Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 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.