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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.

Philosophers --- Helvetius, --- -Correspondence --- Helvetius --- Philosophes --- Correspondence --- Correspondance --- Helvétius, --- -Scholars --- Helvétius, Claude Adrien, --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters. --- Helvétius, Claude-Adrien, --- Gelʹvet︠s︡iĭ, K., --- Гельвеций, К., --- Schweitzer, Claude-Adrien, --- Helwecjusz, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- French literature --- English literature --- Monsters in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Monsters in art --- Littérature anglaise --- Monstres dans la littérature --- Littérature médiévale --- Monstres dans l'art --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Monsters in literature. --- Monsters --- Monsters in art. --- History and criticism. --- Symbolic aspects --- History --- Philosophers - France - Correspondence --- Helvétius, Claude Adrien, - 1715-1771 --- France. --- Helvetius, Anne-Catherine, --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Helvétius, Anne Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt, --- De Ligniville d'Autricourt, Anne-Catherine, --- Ligniville d'Autricourt, Anne-Catherine de, --- D'Autricourt, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, --- Autricourt, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d', --- Gelʹvet͡siĭ, K.,

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Cohen, A. --- Letterkunde --- Littérature --- Cohen, Albert, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cohen, Albert --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Helvetius, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt --- French literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- French literature (outside France) --- Cohen, Albert, - 1895- - Criticism and interpretation --- Cohen, Albert, - 1895 --- -French literature (outside France)

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Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as ";the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France."; The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory.The study begins by presenting the main ideas of sensationist philosophers Condillac, Bonnet, and Helvétius, who held that all of our ideas come to us through the senses. The experience of the body in seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching enabled individuals, as John C. O'Neal points out, to challenge the sometimes arbitrary authority of institutions and people in positions of power. After a general introduction to sensationism, the author develops a theory of sensationist aesthetics that not only reveals the interconnections of the period's philosophy and literature but also enhances our awareness of the forces at work in the French novel. He goes on to examine the relations between sensationism and eighteenth-century French educational theory, materialism, and idéologie. Ultimately, O'Neal opens a discussion of the implications of sensationist thought for issues of particular concern to society today.

Empiricism. --- French literature --- Philosophy, French --- Enlightenment --- Experience --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Rationalism --- History and criticism. --- 0-271-01515-2. --- Authority of Experience. --- Condillac Bonnet and Helvetius. --- Criticism. --- French novel educational theory. --- Hippolyte. --- John C. O'Neal. --- Literary Theory. --- Lockean. --- Philosophy. --- Taine. --- aesthetics. --- empiricism. --- literature education. --- materialism ideologie society. --- moral theory. --- sensationist.

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Le XVIIIe siècle est l'âge d'or du matérialisme français. Qu'il prolonge la doctrine de la nécessité des événements de Hobbes (d'Holbach), qu'il retourne la théorie des animaux machines contre Descartes pour penser l'homme machine (La Mettrie), qu'il renouvelle l'idée d'une science de l'homme à partir d'une critique de l'intériorité subjective (Helvétius) ou invente de nouveaux modèles (Diderot), on retrouve souvent dans les œuvres les plus importantes la tentative de fournir une explication homogène de la nature, de la société et de l'esprit. Mais cet âge d'or du matérialisme français, tout central qu'il fut dans la pensée des Lumières, n'y fut pourtant pas dominant. C'est pourquoi, outre son aspect proprement théorique, son style est polémique et critique: contre les fictions de la métaphysique, contre l'hypocrisie morale, contre la superstition religieuse. Affrontant directement les pouvoirs ecclésiastique, politique, universitaire, certains textes matérialistes ont vécu, comme on le sait, une vie clandestine et connu une histoire souterraine. Il est question ici de trois matérialistes français majeurs: La Mettrie, Helvétius et d'Holbach. Si ces trois auteurs sont privilégiés, c'est pour remettre au premier plan des œuvres qui ont été parfois éclipsées par l'ombre immense portée par une autre figure importante: Diderot. Mais Diderot n'est bien entendu pas absent du volume. Il se pourrait même que ce soit dans une confrontation avec lui que se dessinent les voies du matérialisme

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, --- Helvétius, --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, --- Matérialisme. --- French political philosophy --- Materialism --- Philosophers --- Philosophy, French --- French philosophy --- Scholars --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- History --- Lametri, Žiuljenas Ofre, --- Mettrie, Julien Offray de La, --- Lametri, Zhi︠u︡lʹen Ofre, --- La Metrie, --- La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de, --- D'Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiery, --- Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich, --- Thiry, Paul Henri, --- Thiery, Paul Henri, --- Thierry, Paul Henri, --- Dietrich, Paul Henri, --- Thyry, Paul Henri, --- Holbach, Paul Thiry, --- Holbach, --- D'Holbach, --- M. D***, --- D***, --- Ancien magistrat, --- Bernier, --- Olbach, --- Orbach, --- Halbach, --- Holbah, Pol, --- Golʹbakh, Polʹ, --- Holbakh, Pol, --- Helvétius, Claude-Adrien, --- Gelʹvet︠s︡iĭ, K., --- Гельвеций, К., --- Schweitzer, Claude-Adrien, --- Helwecjusz, --- Philosophes --- Philosophie française --- Histoire. --- Matérialisme --- Histoire --- 18th century --- Criticism --- Helvétius, Claude Adrien, --- von Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich --- Materialism - France - History - 18th century --- Philosophy, French - 18th century --- Philosophers - France - 18th century --- La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, - 1709-1751 --- Helvétius, Claude Adrien, - 1715-1771 --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, - baron d', - 1723-1789 --- La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (1709-1751) --- Helvétius, Claude-Adrien (1715-1771) --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich (1723-1789 ; baron d') --- Philosophie --- Matérialisme --- Critique et interprétation --- France --- 18e siècle

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