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Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu''s paragraphing. George R. Healy''s Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work of remarkable diversity designed more to explore a problem of great urgency for eighteenth century thought than to resolve it: that of discovering universals, or at least the pragmatic constants, amid the diversity of human culture and society, and of confronting the proposition that there are no values in human relationships except those imposed by force or agreed upon in self-interested conventions.

The Persian Letters

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      Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
      Published 15 September 1999
      ISBN-13 9780872204911
      978-0872204911
      ISBN-10 087220491X
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      Book Synopsis

      Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu''s paragraphing. George R. Healy''s Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work of remarkable diversity designed more to explore a problem of great urgency for eighteenth century thought than to resolve it: that of discovering universals, or at least the pragmatic constants, amid the diversity of human culture and society, and of confronting the proposition that there are no values in human relationships except those imposed by force or agreed upon in self-interested conventions.

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