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The Fables of Reason - A Study of Voltaire's Contes Philosophiques (Hardcover)
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The Fables of Reason - A Study of Voltaire's Contes Philosophiques (Hardcover)
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Almost three hundred years after his birth in 1694, this is the
first comprehensive study of Voltaire's contes philosophiques - the
philosophical tales for which he is now best remembered and which
include the masterpiece Candide. The Fables of Reason situates each
of the twenty-six stories in its historical and intellectual
context and offers new readings and approaches in the light of
modern critical thinking. It rejects the traditional view that
Voltaire's contes were the private expression of his philosophical
perplexity, written merely in the margins of his historiography and
his campaigns against the Establishment. Arguing that narrative is
Voltaire's essential mode of thought, the book stresses the role of
the reader and shows how the contes are designed less to
communicate a set of truths than to encourage independence of mind.
Roger Pearson has written a witty, lucid and scholarly guide to the
`fables of reason' with which Voltaire undermined - and continues
to undermine - the religious, philosophical, and economic `fables',
by which other thinkers have tried to explain and direct human
experience.
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