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This is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher Claude Adrien HelvTtius (1715-1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758). Featuring the correspondence of Mme HelvTtius, nTe Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to HelvTtius discovered since the publication of the first three volumes.Mme HelvTtius enjoyed an active widowhood, welcoming to her salon in Auteuil a group of intellectuals who came to be known as the IdTologues. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, she was involved in political events before and during the French Revolution, as well as in Napoleon's coup d'Ttat. In the last letter of the series her grandson describes her burial in her garden, which took place without religious or revolutionary ceremony in the presence of all her favourite pets.Most of the newly discovered letters are addressed to HelvTtius by figures as important as d'Alembert, Boulanger, Chastellux, Saint-Lambert, Servan, Thieriot, and Trublet. Some of these complete an existing exchange, others provide dates for letters already published.The fifth and final volume will be devoted primarily to a comprehensive index. It will also include a chronological list of all the letters, corrections and modifications, and other useful material.
Philosophers --- Philosophes --- Helvétius, --- Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, --- 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', --- Helvétius, Claude-Adrien, --- Gelʹvet︠s︡iĭ, K., --- Гельвеций, К., --- Schweitzer, Claude-Adrien, --- Helwecjusz, --- Helvétius, Claude-Adrien --- Correspondance --- Helvétius, Anne-Cathérine --- Correspondence --- France --- Helvétius --- Correspondance.
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The third volumes of the Correspondance generale d'Helvetius offers readers further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France. Claude-Adrian Helvetius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe. The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvetius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.
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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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