Download or read book Consid rations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur d cadence written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Icons of Horror and the Supernatural written by S. T. Joshi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror and the supernatural have fascinated people for centuries, and many of the most central figures appear over and over again. These figures have gained iconic status and continue to hold sway over popular culture and the modern imagination. This book offers extended entries on 24 of the most enduring and significant figures of horror and the supernatural, including The Sea Creature, The Witch, The Alien, The Vampire, The Werewolf, The Sorcerer, The Ghost, The Siren, The Mummy, The Devil, and The Zombie. Each entry is written by a leading authority on the subject and discusses the topic's essential features and lasting influence, from the classical epics of Homer to the novels of Stephen King. Entries cite sources for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Entries include illustrations, sidebars of interesting information, and excerpts from key texts. Horror and the supernatural have fascinated people for centuries, with many of the most central figures appearing over and over again across time and cultures. These figures have starred in the world's most widely read literary works, most popular films, and most captivating television series. Because of their popularity and influence, they have attained iconic status and a special place in the popular imagination. This book overviews 24 of the most significant icons of horror and the supernatural.
Download or read book Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire written by Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He did more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon. Montesquieu is credited as being among the progenitors, which include Herodotus and Tacitus, of anthropology, as being among the first to extend comparative methods of classification to the political forms in human societies. Indeed, the French political anthropologist Georges Balandier considered Montesquieu to be "the initiator of a scientific enterprise that for a time performed the role of cultural and social anthropology." According to social anthropologist D. F. Pocock, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws was "the first consistent attempt to survey the varieties of human society, to classify and compare them and, within society, to study the inter-functioning of institutions." Montesquieu's political anthropology gave rise to his theories on government. When Catherine the Great wrote her Nakaz (Instruction) for the Legislative Assembly she had created to clarify the existing Russian law code, she avowed borrowing heavily from Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, although she discarded or altered portions that did not support Russia's absolutist bureaucratic monarchy."
Download or read book Considerations Sur Les Causes de La Grandeur Des Romains Et de Leur Decadence written by Charles Louis Montesquieu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence, également connu sous le titre Grandeur et décadence des Romains, est une oeuvre de Montesquieu, rédigée en 1734, évoquant la Rome antique, ses forces politiques, ses abus et les causes de sa chute.Cet ouvrage va inspirer nombre d'esprits de son temps, dont sans doute Edward Gibbon qui développera fortement le sujet en 1776 dans son Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain.Quatorze ans après sera publié De l'esprit des lois, ouvrage maître des Lumières au xviiie siècle, où Montesquieu entreprend une réflexion philosophique sur l'histoire romaine.Cet ouvrage a une grande importance sur le plan historiographique, car il a contribué à structurer ultérieurement la chronologie en grandes périodes: Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Renaissance et début des temps modernes.
Download or read book Montesquieu s Science of Politics written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what constitutes the only English-language collection of essays ever dedicated to the analysis of Montesquieu's contributions to political science, the contributors review some of the most vexing controversies that have arisen in the interpretation of Montesquieu's thought. By paying careful attention to the historical, political, and philosophical contexts of Montesquieu's ideas, the contributors provide fresh readings of The Spirit of Laws, clarify the goals and ambitions of its author, and point out the pertinence of his thinking to the problems of our world today.
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Download or read book The Politcal Theory of Montesquieu written by Melvyn Richter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-04-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available in an English translation the most significant part of Montesquieu's political, social and legal theory. About two-thirds of the volume has been translated from the Spirit of the Laws, not redone in English since the eighteenth century. That version was notoriously inadequate: Montesquieu's key terms were not rendered consistently; often his meaning was distorted by giving the nearest English eighteenth-century legal or institutional equivalent. Finally, English usage has changed so much that the eighteenth-century translation makes Montesquieu seem both quaint and obscure. This volume also includes substantial selections from the Persian Letters and the Considerations on the Causes of the Romans; Greatness and Decline. Although adequate translations of these works exist, it seemed advisable to maintain intellectual and stylistic consistency by providing English versions on the same principles as the Spirit of the Laws.
Download or read book Montesquieu and the Old Regime written by Mark Hulliung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Download or read book Against the Current written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.
Download or read book Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire 1825 written by Baron Charles De Secondat Montesquieu, Bar and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1825 Edition.
Download or read book Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur d cadence written by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Considerations Sur Les Causes de La Grandeur Des Romains Et de Leur Decadence Dodo Press written by Montesquieu and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), est un moraliste, penseur politique, precurseur de la sociologie, philosophe et ecrivain francais des Lumieres. Montesquieu, avec entre autres John Locke, est l'un des penseurs de l'organisation politique et sociale sur lesquels les societes modernes s'appuient. Il a notamment travaille sur la repartition des fonctions de l'Etat entre ses differentes composantes, appelee posterieurement "principe de separation des pouvoirs." Sa grande contribution est d'avoir su exposer a ses contemporains deux modeles de liberte politique: la "liberte moderee" du regime monarchique et la "liberte extreme" incarnee par la Constitution d'Angleterre. Ses oeuvres comprennent: Systeme des Idees (1716), Lettres Persanes (1721), Le Temple de Gnide (1724), Histoire Veritable d'Arsace et Ismenie (1730), Considerations sur les Causes de la Grandeur des Romains et de Leur Decadence (1734), De l'Esprit des Lois (1748), La Defense de "L'Esprit des Lois" (1750) et Essai sur le Gout (1757).
Download or read book Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur d cadence written by Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (baron de la Brède et de) and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Temple of Gnidus written by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177494 Anonymous. By Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Parallel French and English titlepages and text, the French title being 'Le temple de Gnide'. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1750. 155, [3]p.; 12°
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Download or read book Montesquieu and Rousseau written by Emile Durkheim and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montesquieu & Rousseau provides, for the first time in English, two essays by Emile Durkheim on his chief eighteenth-century predecessors in the main stream of Western thought. Durkheim recognized that Montesquieu had laid down the principles of sociology long before that young science had a name and that Rousseau, too, spoke as a sociologist in The Social Contract. With his characteristic blend of reason and fervor, he enlarged upon these forerunners to create the fundamental ideas of modern sociology. The essays are valuable for what they tell us of Montesquieu and Rousseau. They are doubly important to readers who are directly concerned with political philosophy and social science. And, as Henri Peyre points out in the Foreword, they are an example of how the best minds of any age can serve each other.
