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Germaine Baronne de STAEL-HOLSTEIN

De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations

Jean Mourer &Hignou, Lausanne 1796, In 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (2) 376pp., relié.

First edition of second emission. The book had just been published that Madame de Stael wanted to make changes, which resulted in the publisher 4 different shows. The first two programs have the Latin epigraph Quaesivit reperta ... one of which is hardback and the other no (ours), as for the two other programs, they carry the epigraph of Seneca India ruentium and the last one contains the First Part mention, while we know that the second part projected will never be written and published.
Binding half posterior sheepskin corners early nineteenth. Bind used and very rubbed. Headdress faded, missing tail. Large gaps on the leather of the upper plate. Bowed and bare edges. Light redheads in title page but together rather fresh.
In this landmark and already pre-Romantic work, Madame de Staël affirms the impossibility of separating feelings from ideas, a thesis in opposition to the Enlightenment. Madame de Stael invents above all a new form of moral criticism, of which the nineteenth century will be used. Madame de Stael presents here a sort of original synthesis of enlightened dirigisme (like Helvetius) and values ​​of liberalism as a Constant can define it, Florence Lotterie.

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