Correspondance générale d'Helvétius
This volume completes the critical edition of the letters of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), author of the controversial De l'Esprit (1758), and of his wife, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722–1800), who ran her own salon in Auteuil after her husband's death.
Featuring the correspondence of Mme Helvétius, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), in the years following her husband's death, this is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher, Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771).
The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius 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.
Rather than examining the puzzles and paradoxes which surround the affaire de l'Esprit, this volume presents the documents upon which solutions may be based.
