Rowman & Littlefield Sivumäärä: 224 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 1995, 02.05.1995 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
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.