Bayle: Political WritingsPierre 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. |
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... ( E ) ; Brut . For the Dictionary's reception see Rétat ( 1971 ) ; Labrousse ( 1983 ) , p . 90 ; Popkin ( ed . ) ( 1991 ) , pp . viii - x . 3 Ibid . provided a better antidote than censorship to every sort of xix Introduction.
... ( E ) ; Brut . For the Dictionary's reception see Rétat ( 1971 ) ; Labrousse ( 1983 ) , p . 90 ; Popkin ( ed . ) ( 1991 ) , pp . viii - x . 3 Ibid . provided a better antidote than censorship to every sort of xix Introduction.
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... ( ibid . , pp . 50- 74 ) . For a brief period between 1669 and 1670 he was a convert to Catholicism , but he returned to Calvinism and was dispatched by his family to the Protestant Academy of Geneva . Had he remained in France he would ...
... ( ibid . , pp . 50- 74 ) . For a brief period between 1669 and 1670 he was a convert to Catholicism , but he returned to Calvinism and was dispatched by his family to the Protestant Academy of Geneva . Had he remained in France he would ...
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... ( ibid . ) ? It turned out that by restating in a more popular medium certain themes presented in earlier essays and reviews , he attracted a wider audience and ensured a more prolonged influence , especially for his advocacy of ...
... ( ibid . ) ? It turned out that by restating in a more popular medium certain themes presented in earlier essays and reviews , he attracted a wider audience and ensured a more prolonged influence , especially for his advocacy of ...
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... ( ibid . , p . 55 ) . Calvinists in France , therefore , not unlike certain Jansenist Catholics , could empathise readily with the Christians of the first three centuries and with the Stoics of the same era . The Christianity of those ...
... ( ibid . , p . 55 ) . Calvinists in France , therefore , not unlike certain Jansenist Catholics , could empathise readily with the Christians of the first three centuries and with the Stoics of the same era . The Christianity of those ...
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... ( ibid . , pp . 74 , 95-6 ) that Bayle first encountered a critical account of the heliocen- tric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo . The approach was to regard the new teaching less as new certainty that must replace a fallacious dogma ...
... ( ibid . , pp . 74 , 95-6 ) that Bayle first encountered a critical account of the heliocen- tric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo . The approach was to regard the new teaching less as new certainty that must replace a fallacious dogma ...
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