Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains essays on literature, history and philosophy which reflect Voltaire's perennial interests. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.
FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand NewThe new edition of Voltaire's works produced by Cramer in 1756 in close collaboration with the author contained, in volumes 4 and 5, 'Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie'. Alongside significant works previously published were a number of new texts, some related, some standing alone, that reflect not only Voltaire's perennial interests, but a new way of presenting them in short articles or 'petits chapitres', as he referred to them. These new texts form the major part of this volume 45B of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire.
Des langues; Jusqu'à quel point on doit tromper le peuple; Les Deux Consolés; [Timon] Sur le paradoxe que les sciences ont nui aux mœurs; Des Juifs; Du siècle de Constantin, De Dioclétien, De Constantin, De Julien; Lettre sur le Dante; De la chimère du souverain bien; De la population d'Amérique; Histoire des voyages de Scarmentado; Des génies, De l'astrologie, De la magie, Des possédés; D'Ovide, De Socrate; Dialogues entre Lucrèce et Posidonius; [Notice autobiographique]; Préface des éditeurs, Lettre de M. de Voltaire aux éditeurs de la première édition de Genève; Appendice: Deux prospectus des Cramer; 'Vers au roi de Prusse' (1756): supplement to the edition published in OCV, vol.45A; 'Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne': addenda to the edition published in OCV, vol.45A
French Studies: "Readers are undoubtedly familiar with the Voltaire Foundation's ever-expanding critical edition of Voltaire's collected works, which has changed the landscape of eighteenth-century scholarship. [...] Coming on the heels of Voltaire's two great historical works, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751) and L'Histoire universelle (1753), this collection might give the impression of a writer capitalizing on his success by recycling unused work. Nicholas Cronk, however, makes a compelling case for considering the mélanges as a bona fide genre in which Voltaire exercised his taste for 'de petits chapitres', short variations on themes that enabled maximum flexibility in tone, approach, and subject matter. [...] 'De petits chapitres' these may be but, as this volume convincingly shows, Voltaire's brevity — his conspicuous silence on certain issues as much as his polemics — set the agenda of international debate for much of the eighteenth century."
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