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Fénelon : moral and political writings / Fénelon ; translated and edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English (Hanley)
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Political science.
- Philosophy, French--17th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Philosophy, French--18th century.
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715--Translations into English.
- Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages).
- Other Title:
- Moral and political writings
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Fénelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in 18th-century France after the Bible, and yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This problem is particularly acute in the Anglophone world, where only a small fraction of Fénelon's vast and influential corpus has appeared in modern English translation. This collection of new translations of Fénelon's moral and political writings renders one of the leading voices of early modern philosophy accessible to English-language audiences.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Fénelon's life
- Fénelon's writings
- Fénelon's political ideas
- Fables (selections)
- The bee and the fly
- The pigeon punished for its restlessness
- The bees
- The adventures of Aristonoüs
- Life of Plato
- Dialogues of the dead composed for the education of a Prince (selections)
- Achilles and Homer
- Confucius and Socrates
- Solon and Justinian
- Socrates and Alcibiades (1)
- Socrates and Alcibiades (2)
- Alexander and Aristotle
- Coriolanus and Camillus
- Caesar and Cato
- Louis XI and Cardinal Balue
- Louis XI and Louis XII
- Henry VII and Henry VIII
- Henry III and Henry IV
- Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin
- The adventures of Telemachus (selections)
- Egypt
- Tyre
- Crete
- Bétique
- Manduria
- Salente I
- Salente II
- Correspondence
- Letter to Louis XIV
- Letter to the Marquis de Louville
- Letter to the Duke of Burgundy
- Discourse delivered at the consecration of the Elector of Cologne
- Examination of conscience on the duties of Kingship
- Political memoranda
- Memorandum on the deplorable situation in France
- Plans of government (Tables de chaulnes)
- Measures to take after the death of the Duke of Burgundy
- "On pure love"
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 18, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-007962-2
- 0-19-007960-6
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