Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's Persian Letters

ISBN-13: 9780847680405 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str.

Diana J. Schaub

Opis

A treatment of Montesquieu's Persian Letters, which argues that the novel is a philosophic critique of despotism in all its forms: domestic, political and religious. It shows that Montesquieu believed that the Enlightenment failed as a philosophy by not recognising man as an erotic being.