Letters on England (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
09.03.2026
Verlag
Warbler ClassicsSeitenzahl
140
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/0.8 cm
Gewicht
186 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798902670223
Voltaire's Letters on England is a brisk, mischievously lucid tour of English life-its Parliament and parties, its Quakers and stockjobbers, its scientists and skeptics. His exuberant praise of religious toleration, parliamentary checks on kings, the rule of law, commercial energy, and the prestige of science turns into an implicit indictment of French absolutism, clerical power, and censorship. Written after his English exile in the late 1720s, the book uses England as a daring mirror, reflecting back everything the Ancien Régime refuses to see about itself. In celebrating constitutional monarchy, rights secured by law rather than royal whim, and a public sphere animated by debate and print, the Letters became a key Enlightenment text and an intellectual fuse laid along the path to the French Revolution. Voltaire's portrait of England at that time-a society where power is divided, commerce thrives, and conscience is free-also fed the broader Enlightenment conversation that nourished American ideas about limited government and individual rights. He idealizes and sometimes misunderstands England, but his astonishment over a flawed yet functioning constitutional order remains a bracing reminder of how novel such institutions once were, and how explosive the act of describing them could be in a less free land. This Warbler Classics edition includes a keystone essay on Voltaire's politics and an extensive biographical timeline.
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