Fénelon
«By offering a new, eminently readable English version of selections from the Archbishop of Cambrai's most important writings, Hanley (Boston College) has provided a service to all those interested in the history of ideas...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.»
C. B. Kerr, Vassar College, CHOICE
Fenelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, and yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. Les mer
This collection of new translations of Fenelon's moral and political writings renders one of the leading voices of early modern philosophy accessible to English-language audiences. Reflecting the impressive breadth of Fenelon's thought, the volume includes work on topics ranging from education to literature to religion and statecraft. In the realm of political philosophy and ethics, Fenelon was an uncompromising critic of Louis XIV and absolutism, committed to reforming France's
social, political and economic institutions. In the Enlightenment, he came to be celebrated as a pioneering theorist of education and rhetoric, a prescient student of economics and international relations, and a key voice in the philosophical debates among the heirs of Descartes - not to mention his fame as one of
the seventeenth-century's most preeminent theologians and spiritualists and masters of French prose. With an extensive introduction to Fenelon's life and work, this volume is a critical resource for students and scholars of French history, political philosophy, economics, education, literature, and religion.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190079581
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«By offering a new, eminently readable English version of selections from the Archbishop of Cambrai's most important writings, Hanley (Boston College) has provided a service to all those interested in the history of ideas...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.»
C. B. Kerr, Vassar College, CHOICE