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Voltaire and the Parlements of France (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) - Softcover

Hanrahan, James

 
9780729409704: Voltaire and the Parlements of France (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0729409708 ISBN 13: 9780729409704
Verlag: Voltaire Foundation, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Voltaire's turbulent relationship with the courts of law of ancien régime France reveals much about his social and political thought, but its representation in many studies of the philosophe is often simplistic and distorted. In the first in-depth study of Voltaire and the parlements James Hanrahan looks afresh at this relationship to offer a new and challenging analysis of Voltaire's political thought and activity. Through examination of Voltaire's evolving representation of the parlements in his writings from La Henriade to the Histoire du parlement, Hanrahan calls into question the dominant historiography of extremes that pits Voltaire 'defender of the oppressed' against 'self-interested' magistrates. He presents a much more nuanced view of the relationship, from which the philosophe emerges as a highly pragmatic figure whose political philosophy was inseparable from his business or humanitarian interests. In Voltaire and the 'parlements' of France Hanrahan opens up analysis of Voltaire's politics, and provides a new context for future study of the writer as both historiographer and campaigner for justice.

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Verlag
Voltaire Foundation
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0729409708
ISBN 13 
9780729409704
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
278
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