Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws

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

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

叢書名: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

平裝: 808頁

語種： 英語

ISBN: 0521369746

條形碼: 9780521369749

商品尺寸: 13.8 x 5 x 21.6 cm 

商品重量: 1.16 Kg 

內容簡介

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.