Maxims
By: La Rochefoucauld ; translation, introduction, and notes by Stuart D. Warner and Stéphane Douard.
Contributors: Warner, Stuart D., 1955-; Douard, Stéphane, 1969-
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: South Bend, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Maxims
Description: "The translation of this bilingual edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (long known in English simply as the Maxims) is the first to appear in forty years. It is completely new and aims - unlike all previous versions - at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word - for example, amour-propre as "self-love" - as consistently throughout as good sense allows.

This also means that the translators have made every effort to maintain La Rochefoucauld's word order. This allows the reader the best vantage point for viewing La Rochefoucauld's dramatic and paradoxical juxtapositions of words and ideas, juxtapositions of the utmost importance to understanding his thought. Despite the translation's concern with literalness, careful attention has been paid to the nuances of the literary character of the Maxims.

In addition, this work contains an updated version, in English, of the original French index of the work that will greatly aid the reader in finding just the right maxim."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prefatory Materials; title: Introduction by Stuart D. Warnervii; title: Translators' Note xvii; title: Maxims; title: Maxims (1678 edition); title: The Bookseller to the Reader1; title: Moral Reflections3; title: Note to the Reader (1665) ["preface" to the first edition]96; title: Withdrawn Maxims101; title: Posthumous Maxims120; title: Portraits; title: Portrait of La Rochefoucauld by Himself (1659)133; title: Portrait of La Rochefoucauld by the Cardinal de Retz138; title: Portrait of the Cardinal de Retz by La Rochefoucauld (early; title: 1670s) 140; title: End Matter; title: Selected Bibliography142; title: Index 145.