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Fenelon: Telemachus (Hardcover, New)
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Fenelon: Telemachus (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Fenelon's Telemachus (1699) is, alongside Bossuet's Politics, the
most important work of political theory of the grand siecle in
France. It was also the most widely read work of the time,
influencing Montesquieu and Rousseau in its attempt to combine
monarchism with republican virtues. Fenelon tells of the moral and
political education of Telemachus, young son of Ulysses, by his
tutor Mentor (the goddess Minerva in disguise). Telemachus visits
every corner of the Mediterranean world and learns patience,
courage, modesty and simplicity, the qualities he will need when he
succeeds Ulysses as King of Ithaca. It is the story of the
transformation of an egoistic young man into a model ruler, and is
meant (among other things) as a commentary on the bellicosity and
luxuriousness of Louis XIV. The present English edition follows
closely that of Tobias Smollett published in 1776.
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