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

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 - Literary Criticism - 199 pages
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.

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Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
Diana J. Schaub
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Diana J. Schaub is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola College in Maryland.

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TitleErotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Diana J. Schaub
AuthorDiana J. Schaub
PublisherRowman & Littlefield, 1995
ISBN0847680401, 9780847680405
Length199 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Philosophy / Political
Religion / Theology
  
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