Der Band macht das politische Hauptwerk Benjamin Constants zugAnglich, das fA1/4r sein politisches Handeln ebenso wie fA1/4r die Entwicklung seiner politischen Schriften grundlegend war. Seine Principes de politique wurden insofern zu einem der entscheidenden Ausgangspunkte des europAischen Liberalismus. Das Buch bA1/4ndelt 1906 Aoeberlegungen, die in Constants politischem Denken lAnger gereift sind. Es bleibt lange Zeit unverAffentlicht. Der kritische Apparat macht die Genese des Werkes und auch seine Rezeption in der politischen Theorie des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts zugAnglich.

This volume contains Books VI VIII ofDe laReligion. These books cover the constitutive elements of sacerdotal polytheism (VI), the constitutive elements of non-sacerdotal polytheism (VII), and the Homeric poems (VIII). They occupy a key position in the economy of the work as a whole by contrasting the two forms of polytheism. In addition, this volume includes an interesting discussion of the so-called Homer Question. "

This volume contains the first of five volumes of Constant s De la Religion. It comprises two books with a different thematic focus: book one presents an outline of the sentiment religieux, while book 2 deals with questions of fetishism. It also makes accessible all available documents relating to the publication of this first volume as well as the first ever edition of Constant s Carnet de notes depuis le 29 septembre 1824."

Volume 7 contains the journal written in Greek characters and kept by the author between 1811 and 1816. It traces his itinerary from the point where he left Switzerland for Germany up to his return to Paris under the Second Restoration. The journal records Constant's stay in Germany, the Cent-jours, his volte-face to Napoleon and the Empire, and his exile in London, alongside the author's errant sentimental attachments to Charlotte von Hardenberg, Juliette RA(c)camier, and Mme de StaAl, and his ongoing scholarly aspirations and frustrated political ambitions. The journal is followed by the carnet written after an accident, and a series of notebooks on his expenses, which Constant kept to his death. The texts come with the usual resources: a chronology, a record of the author's movements, listings of persons and proper names, a bibliography, and various indexes.

Volume VI of the AComplete WorksA contains the first two of the Intimate Journals, the full-length Journal (1804-1805) and the abridged version (1804-1807), complete with an exhaustive description of notable features in the manuscripts and a set of notes far broader in scope than those of the first edition (1952). The Journals are followed by a hitherto unedited dossier kept by Constant on the financial differences between himself and his father. This document, titled AAffaire de mon pA]reA, enhances our understanding of the complex relations between the two men. The volume also provides a useful critical apparatus including a chronology, a list of works cited by Constant, a bibliography, indexes of personal and place names, etc.