SOURCE: Starobinski, Jean. “From the Decline of Erudition to the Decline of Nations: Gibbon's Response to French Thought.” Daedalus 105, no. 3 (1976): 189-207.
In the following essay, Starobinski analyzes arguments in Gibbon's Essai sur l'étude de la literature, an early work by the historian which concerns itself with the relationship between the decline in letters and the decline in nations.
This is a free excerpt of 60 words. There are 11,495 words (approx.
38 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Edward Gibbon: Critical Essay by Jean Starobinski Access Pass.
