Volney: ‘The Ruins' and ‘Catechism of Natural Law' - Brossura

Volney, Constantin

 
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ISBN 10: 1108717268 ISBN 13: 9781108717267
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Volney was once as influential as Tom Paine, and the author of one of the most popular works of the French Revolutionary era. The Ruins of Empires makes an argument for popular sovereignty, couched in the alluring and accessible form of an Oriental dream-tale. A favourite of both Thomas Jefferson, who translated it, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the Ruins advances a scheme of radical, utopian politics premised upon the deconstruction of all the world's religions. It was widely celebrated by radicals in Britain and America, and exercised an enormous influence on poets from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Walt Whitman for its indictments of tyranny and priestcraft. Volney instead advocates a return to natural precepts shorn of superstition, set out in his sequel, the Catechism of Natural Law. These days Volney enjoys a high profile in African-American Studies as a proponent of Black Egyptianism.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1108717268
ISBN 13 
9781108717267
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
270
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Persona responsabile
Avery
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