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The Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was one of the greatest thinkers of all time. He was a leading member of the French Enlightenment and laid the foundations for thought in many of the social sciences. His greatest book, 'The Spirit of the Laws', was the first detailed survey of the customs and cultures of the world and their deeper structures. It build on other important work in his 'Persian Letters', 'Considerations on the Decline of the Romans'. His wide learning and analytic brilliance does not always make his work easily accessible. But if we consider all the work together, and combine the life with the writing, it is possible to see deep insider the mind of one of the most profound thinkers of modern times and someone who shaped our modern world.
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Alan Macfarlane is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1986. He has published more than 20 books and many films and other materials. All these can be seen on his website, www.alanmacfarlane.com
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1484107098
- ISBN 13 9781484107096
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages56
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