Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws

Charles de Montesquieu(作者), Anne M. Cohler(编者), Basia Carolyn Miller(编者), Harold Samuel Stone(编者) 

出版社: Cambridge University Press (1989年9月21日)

丛书名: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

平装: 808页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0521369746

条形码: 9780521369749

商品尺寸: 13.8 x 5 x 21.6 cm 

商品重量: 1.16 Kg 

内容简介

The
Spirit of the Laws is, without question, one of the central texts in
the history of eighteenth-century thought, yet there has been no
complete, scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas
Nugent, published in 1750. This lucid translation renders Montesquieu's
problematic text newly accessible to a fresh generation of students,
helping them to understand quite why Montesquieu was such an important
figure in the early enlightenment and why The Spirit of the Laws was,
for example, such an influence upon those who framed the American
constitution. Fully annotated, this edition focuses attention upon
Montesquieu's use of sources and his text as a whole, rather than upon
those opening passages towards which critical energies have
traditionally been devoted, and a select bibliography and chronology are
provided for those coming to Montesquieu's work for the first time.