The essential political writings of Montesquieu - a substantial abridgment of "The Spirit of the Laws", plus judicious selections from "The Persian Letters" and "Considerations of the Romans' Greatness and Decline" - are masterfully translated by Melvin Richter. Prefaced by a new fifty-page introduction by Richter for this revised edition, "The Selected Political Writings" displays the genius and virtuosity of Montesquieu the philosopher, social critic, political theorist, and literary stylist, whose work commands the attention of all students of the Enlightenment and of modern constitutional thought.
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Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), made original contributions to political and social theory in his three major books: the Persian Letters (Lettres persanes. 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1721), Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et leur décadence. 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1734), and The Spirit of the Laws (De l'Esprit des loix. 1st ed. , Geneva 1748). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), made original contributions to political and social theory in his three major books: the Persian Letters (Lettres persanes. 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1721), Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et leur décadence. 1st ed., Amsterdam, 1734), and The Spirit of the Laws (De l'Esprit des loix. 1st ed. , Geneva 1748). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secular natural law, state inquisitors, bas peuple, respective principles, despotic states, magnificent lord, intermediary powers, despotic government, chief eunuch, federative republic, natural law theorists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Charles de Montesquieu on 48 pages
- Persian Letters by Charles Louis Baron de Montesquieu on 23 pages
- Persian Letters (Penguin Classics) by Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu on 23 pages
- The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu by Melvyn Richter on page 54, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Fable of the Bees: And Other Writings by Bernard Mandeville in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Tradition(s) II: Hermeneutics, Ethics, and the Dispensation of the Good by Stephen H. Watson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fortune Is a River : Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History by Roger D. Masters in Back Matter
- Tradition(s): Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought (Studies in Continental Thought) by Stephen H. Watson in Back Matter
- The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism by Richard Wolin in Back Matter
- The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism by Paul O. Carrese in Back Matter
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