Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's Persian Letters by Diana J. Schaub

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

Diana J. Schaub

199 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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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 ...

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