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    'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot

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    Contributor(s)
    Goodman, Jessica (editor)
    Ferret, Olivier (editor)
    Collection
    ScholarLed
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    "In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes – a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philosophes emerged in the charged historical context of the pamphlet wars surrounding the publication of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, and delivered an oblique but acerbic criticism of the intellectuals of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, including the likes of Diderot and Rousseau. This book presents the first high-quality English translation of the play, including critical apparatus. The translation is based on Olivier Ferret’s edition, and renders the text into iambic pentameter to preserve the character of the original. Adaptations are further provided of Ferret’s introduction and notes. This masterful and highly accessible translation of Les Philosophes opens up this polemical text to a non-specialist audience. It will be a valuable resource to non-Francophone scholars and students working on the philosophical exchanges of the Enlightenment. Moreover, this translation – the result of a year-long project undertaken by Jessica Goodman with six of her undergraduate French students – expounds the value of collaboration between scholar and student, and, as such, provides a model for other language tutors embarking on translation projects with their students."
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46306
    Keywords
    Charles Palissot de Montenoy; Les Philosophes; comedy; English translation; play; critical apparatus; translation;
    DOI
    10.11647/OBP.0201
    ISBN
    9781783749089, 9781783749096, 9781783749119, 9781783749126, 9781783749133
    Publisher
    Open Book Publishers
    Publisher website
    https://www.openbookpublishers.com/
    Publication date and place
    2021
    Classification
    Philosophy
    Social and political philosophy
    French
    Pages
    234
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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