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Aliscans
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 419.00For the first time, this volume presents a German translation of the Old French heroic epic Aliscans, which served as a template for Wolfram von Eschenbach?s novel in verse, Willehalm, one of the most important works of the German Middle Ages and in world literature. The primary source for the text is the edition based on the Venetian manuscript M... more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...
Beaumarchais and the Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their critical receptions, their influence on drama of the period... more...
Brief Lives: Marquis de Sade
Hesperus Press 2011; US$ 12.99As explicit in his prose as he was in his private life, the Marquis de Sade remains one of the most controversial writers of all time. This new biography, by the acclaimed translator and author David Carter, promises to shock as much as it informs. Arrested many times for sexual misdemeanors, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, where... more...
The Confessions
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every book. ******************. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
Das mathematische und naturphilosophische Lernen und Arbeiten der Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Springer 2012; US$ 47.99Die französische Marquise Émilie du Châtelet war zu ihren Lebzeiten eine weit über die Grenzen Frankreichs bekannte Mathematikerin und Naturphilosophin. Dies ist erstaunlich, da ihr und ihren Geschlechtsgenossinnen in der Epoche der Aufklärung der Zugang zu den höheren Bildungsinstitutionen verwehrt war. Das vorliegende... more...
Diderot, Sénèque et Jean-Jacques
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 112.00Dans l Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron , dernier texte publié de son vivant, Diderot dresse un portrait élogieux du philosophe Sénèque, dont laction et les préceptes devraient être, selon son apologiste, lobjet dune égale admiration. Exploitant lopinion des uns, contestant... more...
Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species
Routledge 2006; US$ 95.00Examines how Dr Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combines ideas from these sources to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype. more...
Die Dynamik der Freundschaft
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 53.27Hauptbeschreibung Dieser Band trägt zur Aufklärung des zeitgenössisch-westlichen Freundschaftsverständnisses in seiner Geschichtlichkeit und seinen Traditionszusammenhängen bei, indem er die Konzeptionen der französischen Moralisten Michel de Montaigne, François de La Rochefoucauld und Nicolas Chamfort untersucht. Die Analyse, die sich auf den jeweiligen... more...









