Edited by David Smith, Peter Allan, Alan Dainard, Marie-Thérèse Inguenaud, Jean Orsoni and Jonas Steffen
Price:
$63.00
ISBN: 9781442638846
Pub Date: February 2005
This volume completes the critical edition of the letters of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758), and of his wife, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722–1800), who ran her own salon in Auteuil after her husband's death.
Edited by David Smith, Peter Allan, Alan Dainard, Marie-Thérèse Inguenaud and Jean Orsoni
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781442638822
Pub Date: November 1991
The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.
Edited by David Smith, Peter Allan, Alan Dainard and Jean Orsoni
Price:
$61.00
ISBN: 9781442638808
Pub Date: December 1981
This volume is the first of three in a complete critical edition of the letters of Claude-Adrien Helvétius and his wife, née Anne Catherine de Liginville. His letters, and those of Mme Helvétius, provide insights into, and new information about, their lives and the political, social, and intellectual history of the eighteenth century.
