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John Locke as Translator - Three of the Essais of Pierre Nicole in French and English (Hardcover)
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John Locke as Translator - Three of the Essais of Pierre Nicole in French and English (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2000:07
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Pierre Nicole was a major figure in the Jansenist controversy in
seventeenth-century France. His essays, which were widely read and
appeared in various editions during his lifetime, cover a broad
range of religious subjects. John Locke first came across Nicole's
work during his visit to France in the 1670s, and was so struck by
it that he intended to translate all the Essais de morale into
English. When he had translated three of them, however he learned
that the work had been done already, so he abandoned the project
and presented what he had done so far to the countess of
Shaftesbury, wife of his patron. Locke's translation, in a neatly
written presentation copy, is now housed in the Pierpont Morgan
Library in New York. The three essays that he translated -
'Discours (...) de l'existence de Dieu & l'immortalite de
l'ame', 'Traite de la faiblesse de l'homme', and 'Traite des moyens
de conserver la paix avec les hommes' - deal with topics that he
later discusses at length in his own writings: society, morality,
toleration and opinion. This volume reproduces the text of Nicole's
three essays from an early edition facing Locke's deliberately free
and impressionistic rendering into English, a style which he hoped
might convey the sense of the author better than a literal
translation. The choice of these three essays to translate first,
out of the whole of the Essais de morale, and the changes that
Locke made to his French original in the course of translation,
illuminate our understanding of his thought and of its development.
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