Correspondance Generale d'Helvetius, Volume 4 - 1774-1800 / Lettres 721-855 (French, Paperback)

This is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758). Featuring the correspondence of Mme Helvetius, nee Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to Helvetius discovered since the publication of the first three volumes. Mme Helvetius enjoyed an active widowhood, welcoming to her salon in Auteuil a group of intellectuals who came to be known as the Ideologues. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, she was involved in political events before and during the French Revolution, as well as in Napoleon's coup d'etat. In the last letter of the series her grandson describes her burial in her garden, which took place without religious or revolutionary ceremony in the presence of all her favourite pets. Most of the newly discovered letters are addressed to Helvetius by figures as important as d'Alembert, Boulanger, Chastellux, Saint-Lambert, Servan, Thieriot, and Trublet. Some of these complete an existing exchange, others provide dates for letters already published. The fifth and final volume will be devoted primarily to a comprehensive index. It will also include a chronological list of all the letters, corrections and modifications, and other useful material.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	1998
Authors:	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Editors:	David Smith • Peter Allan • J.A. Dainard • Marie-Therese Inguenaud • Jean Orsoni
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	426
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-3883-9
Languages:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > History > European history > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-4426-3883-4
Barcode:	9781442638839

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