Hanley Ryan Patrick - The Political Philosophy of Fénelon

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Names: Hanley, Ryan Patrick, 1974 author.

Title: The political philosophy of Fenelon / Ryan Patrick Hanley.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019035296 (print) | LCCN 2019035297 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190079635 (hardback) |

ISBN 9780190079659 (epub) | ISBN 9780190079642 (updf) | ISBN 9780190079666 (online)

Subjects: LCSH: Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de La Mothe-, 16511715Political and social views. |

Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de La Mothe-, 16511715Philosophy. |

Political scienceFrancePhilosophyHistory.

Classification: LCC PQ1796 .H36 2020 (print) | LCC PQ1796 (ebook) | DDC 848/.409dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019035296

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For my mother

I am deeply grateful to a number of institutions and individuals for their support of my work on this monograph and its companion volume of translations. Fellowships from the National Endowment from the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation made possible invaluable periods of uninterrupted work. The Way-Klingler Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the Mellon Distinguished Professorship of Political Science at Marquette University also instrumentally supported my work on several fronts, including my work in the archives. For their helpful assistance with this work I am grateful to the staff of the Manuscripts Department of the Bibliothque nationale de France, and to Agns Jaurguibhre and the staff of the Archives de la Compagnie des Prtres de Saint-Sulpice. My archival research trip also enabled me to meet in person three scholars whose work I greatly admire; I am deeply grateful to Franois-Xavier Cuche, Batrice Guion, and Jacques Le Brun for generously sharing their time and expertise with me. The support I received from Marquette also made possible a workshop on the manuscript, at which I benefited from the insightful and invaluable criticism of an outstanding group of scholars. For their participation in this workshop I am very grateful to Christopher Brooke, Aurelian Craiutu, Chris Kelly, Rebecca Kingston, Catherine Labio, Genevive Rousselire, Eric Schliesser, John Scott, and David Williams. I was also fortunate to be able to present my work on Fnelon at meetings of the Association for Political Theory and the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and at events at Boston College, the Catholic University of America, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Notre Dame. For hosting these events I am very grateful to Thomas Ahnert, Susan Collins, James Harris, John McCarthy, Susan Shell, and Michael Zuckert. Several other colleagues and friends were also very supportive of my work on this project; for their encouragement and advice I am especially grateful, in addition to those mentioned previously, to Hank Clark, Bryan Garsten, and Charles Griswold. My research on this book also led me to incur debts to several excellent graduate assistants, including Taylor Ahmed, Kaishuo Chen, Will Fitzsimmons, Michael Murillo, Anthony Lanz, and Darren Nah. Finally, I am grateful to Peter Ohlin and Oxford University Press for their commitment to this book and its companion volume.

This book is dedicated to my mother. Her Christmas gift of the two volumes of the Pliade Fnelon was the proximate cause of this undertaking. But its ultimate source, and indeed the ultimate source of so much for which I am so grateful, is the example of her faith and the experience of her love.

Citations to Fnelons unpublished writings use the following abbreviations to indicate archival repositories and are cited by manuscript number and folio page:

Citations to Fnelons correspondence are to the authoritative scholarly edition, and are cited by volume and page number:

Citations to Fnelons published works are generally to one of two editions, and take the following abbreviations:

All translations are my own, and wherever possible I have used those published in the companion volume to this monograph:

Fnelons texts are cited by volume and page number of the French editions; where appropriate page references for FMP are also given. Citations also include titles of individual texts, abbreviated thusly: