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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles Lois MontesquieuSeries:Great MindsPublish date:2002-03-01Pages:710
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781573929493ISBN-10:1573929492UPC:9781573929493Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, History & Theory, Individual PhilosophersSize:8.43 x 5.51 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCXWM1K5Z6
The Spirit of Laws
The Spirit of Laws is one of the most influential books of all time. This masterpiece of political philosophy was widely read throughout Europe, attracted an especially enthusiastic readership in England, and had a profound effect on the framers of the American Constitution. Montesquieu (1689-1755), already famous and controversial through his Persian Letters, a work of his youth in which he...
Series: Great Minds
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781573929493ISBN-10:1573929492UPC:9781573929493Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, History & Theory, Individual PhilosophersSize:8.43 x 5.51 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCXWM1K5Z6
CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT, the jurist and political philosopher, was born at the Château de La Brede, near Bordeaux, France, on January 18, 1689. He attended the Oratorian College of Juilly and then studied law in Bordeaux from 1705 to 1708. Upon his father's death in 1713, he assumed the title of baron de La Brede and was appointed counselor of the Bordeaux parliament (1714). In 1716 he...
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