That Infernal Affair: Translated by J. Robert Loy- Edited by Phyllis Brooks and Basil Guy (Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History) - Hardcover
In 1756 Rousseau and Diderot were still close friends, and Rousseau was falling in love with the Countess d'Houdetot. The letters that make up the body of That Infernal Affair reveal the apparently sudden breakdown of these and other relationships of Rousseau, against a background of the Seven Years' War, the Lisbon earthquake, and the brutal judicial system of the Old Régime in France. Rousseau's break with Diderot represents the watershed separating sentimental attitudes from the rationalism of Enlightenment (embodied in the Encyclopédie), a break that still colors Western thought. The letters (and the editors' preface, notes, and appendix) reveal not only the «facts» of the case and Rousseau's mental state but also the self-serving manipulation of documentary evidence by unscrupulous erstwhile «friends,» including Madame d'Epinay and her lover, Baron Grimm.
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The Translator: The late J. Robert Loy, Professor and Chair of Modern Foreign Languages at Brooklyn College at his death in 1985, received his Ph.D. from Columbia and taught at several other institutions before going to Brooklyn and the Graduate Center of CUNY. A specialist in eighteenth-century French Literature, he is the author of Diderot's Determined Fatalist (1950) and a study of Montesquieu (1968) as well as many articles dealing with his period. He was also the editor and translator of Diderot's Jacques le Fataliste (1959) and of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes (1961).
The Editors: Basil Guy, Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught eighteenth-century French Literature, has published widely in the field of his specialization. His most recent book is a new translated edition of the Prince de Ligne's garden treatise, Coup d'Oeil at Beloeil (1992).
Phyllis Brooks is a retired Lecturer from the College Writing Program at the University of California at Berkeley where she taught writing in several departments. A writer, editor, and translator, her most recent book is a translation and adaptation of Isabelle Robinet's Taoism: Growth of a Religion (1997).
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The Editors: Basil Guy, Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught eighteenth-century French Literature, has published widely in the field of his specialization. His most recent book is a new translated edition of the Prince de Ligne's garden treatise, Coup d'Oeil at Beloeil (1992).
Phyllis Brooks is a retired Lecturer from the College Writing Program at the University of California at Berkeley where she taught writing in several departments. A writer, editor, and translator, her most recent book is a translation and adaptation of Isabelle Robinet's Taoism: Growth of a Religion (1997).
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Original Language: French
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- PublisherPeter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0820440043
- ISBN 13 9780820440040
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages292
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