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Tufts: On Montesquieu’s Persian Letters

March 31, 2023 @ 12:00 pm

 

On March 31, 2023, the Tufts Program in Political Thought at Tufts University will be hosting faculty partner Stuart Warner for a lecture on Montesquieu. Professor Warner will speak about Montesquieu’s Persian Letters.

Friday, March 31, 2023 • 12:00 PM ET
Tisch Library, Special Collections, Room 103 • Tufts University

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Stuart WarnerProfessor Stuart Warner
 is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Professor Warner has taught courses on many subjects, including History of Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Political Philosophy, Philosophy in Literature, Philosophy in Film, and seminars on Plato’s Republic, Herodotus’s Histories, Plato and Eros, Galileo and Shakespeare, Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, Montaigne’s Essays, and Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. He has published essays on Locke,Spinoza, Burke, Bentham, Hegel, Hume, Adam Smith, and Montesquieu, and edited editions of the writings of Hume, Michael Polanyi, and James Fitzjames Stephen. He has edited and translated a bilingual edition of La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims, and is currently putting the final touches on a translation of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters. Professor Warner served in 2005 as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago’s Committee of Social Thought and in 2007 at the University of Chicago’s Center for Study of the Principles of the American Founding. Besides his current work on Montesquieu, he is working on a translation and interpretation of Descartes’ Discourse on Method, and an interpretive essay on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

Professor Warner is a JMC faculty partner.

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March 31, 2023
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12:00 pm
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