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The Fables of Reason
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The Fables of Reason situates each of the twenty-six stories in its historical and intellectual context and offers new readings and approaches in the light of modern critical thinking. It rejects the traditional view that Voltaire's contes were the private expression of his philosophical perplexity, written merely in the margins of his historiography and his campaigns against the Establishment. Arguing that narrative is Voltaire's essential mode of thought, the book stresses the role of the reader and shows how the contes are designed less to communicate a set of truths than to encourage independence of mind.
Roger Pearson has written a witty, lucid and scholarly guide to the `fables of reason' with which Voltaire undermined - and continues to undermine - the religious, philosophical, and economic `fables', by which other thinkers have tried to explain and direct human experience.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
284
Release Date:
1993-06-24
Publication Date:
1993-05-06
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198158807
ISBN13:
9780198158806
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Weight:
535 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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