This first comprehensive commentary on The Spirit of the Laws uncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing how The Spirit of the Laws enlarges and enriches the liberal conception of natural right by means of a new appeal to History as the source of basic norms.
- ISBN10 0226645452
- ISBN13 9780226645452
- Publish Date 15 July 1989 (first published 1 November 1973)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780226645452