Correspondance litteraire, philosophique et critique is a seminal collection of letters and essays by some of the most influential thinkers and writers of the Enlightenment period. Edited by Friedrich Melchior Grimm and Maurice Tourneux, and originally published in the 18th century, it offers a diverse and engaging panorama of intellectual debates, literary trends, and political controversies of the time. Among the contributors are Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to name a few. The letters and articles cover a wide range of topics, such as aesthetics, morality, religion, history, science, and politics, and demonstrate the complexity and richness of the intellectual landscape of the Enlightenment. This edition is a meticulous and comprehensive reconstruction of the original text, including all the suppressed and unpublished fragments. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of ideas.

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