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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822640703321

Autore

Helvétius Claude Adrien

Titolo

Correspondance générale d'Helvétius . Volume 5, : Quatre nouvelles lettres, errata, additions et modifications, lettres exclues de l'édition proprement dite, généalogies, liste des lettres, index et table des matières / / Préparés par David Smith, directeur de l'édition, Jean Orsoni [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4426-5427-9

1-4426-3884-2

1-281-99280-1

9786611992804

1-4426-7352-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (484 p.)

Collana

University of Toronto Romance Series

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophers - France

Personal correspondence

Electronic books.

France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Comprend des r{acute}ef. bibliogr. et un index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Appendice 31. Quatre lettres relevant des volumes precedents et decouvertes depuis leur parution -- Appendice 32. Acte de mariage d'Helvetius -- Errata -- Additions et modifications -- Lettres exclues de l'edition proprement dite -- Genealogies -- Liste chronologique des lettres figurant dans la presente edition.

Sommario/riassunto

This fifth and final volume completes the critical edition of the letters of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758), and of his wife, nee Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), who ran her own salon in Auteuil after her husband's death. The essential component in this last volume is the detailed index - an indispensable instrument for researchers who wish



to make full use of the correspondence. The volume also includes four new letters discovered since the appearance of the first four volumes, errata, additions and modifications to the critical apparatus, the text of letters excluded from the edition proper, genealogies of the families of Helvetius and his wife, and a chronological list of all letters mentioned in the edition.