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Bayle--political writings / edited by Sally L. Jenkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
- Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
- Standardized Title:
- Dictionnaire historique et critique. Selections. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Early works to 1800.
- Political science.
- Biography--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (lxiii, 367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ideas of Voltaire (who acclaimed it for its candour on such subjects as atheism, obscenity and sexual conduct), Hume, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Banned in France on first publication in 1697, Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental work (which ran to seven million words). This is volume selects political writings from Bayle's work and presents its author as a specifically political thinker. Sally L. Jenkinson's authoritative translation, careful selection of texts, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the translation; Abbreviations; Introduction: a defence of justice and freedom; Chronology; Bibliography; Project for a Critical Dictionary; From Bayle s Dictionnaire historique et critique; Index; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11249-4
- 1-280-41685-8
- 1-139-16386-8
- 0-511-17354-7
- 0-511-03956-5
- 0-511-15265-5
- 0-511-32762-5
- 0-511-05303-7
- OCLC:
- 559321396
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