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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... less well - known works , many of them never before available in a modern English edition . Wherever possible , texts are published in complete and unabridged form , and translations are specially commissioned for the series . Each ...
... less well - known works , many of them never before available in a modern English edition . Wherever possible , texts are published in complete and unabridged form , and translations are specially commissioned for the series . Each ...
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... less as new certainty that must replace a fallacious dogma , and more as a better tested replacement for the now refuted theory of the Scholastics . When in 1675 Bayle himself came to lecture on natural philosophy , he indicated in his ...
... less as new certainty that must replace a fallacious dogma , and more as a better tested replacement for the now refuted theory of the Scholastics . When in 1675 Bayle himself came to lecture on natural philosophy , he indicated in his ...
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... less brought the Gallican church under its control . Its success depended , in part , on allowing Catholic ecclesiastics to hope that in time it would re - integrate the Calvinists into the one official religion . Laymen , on the other ...
... less brought the Gallican church under its control . Its success depended , in part , on allowing Catholic ecclesiastics to hope that in time it would re - integrate the Calvinists into the one official religion . Laymen , on the other ...
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... less obliged than the party of tradition to be wise and judicious in respect of the methods they use to promote their opinions . For , ' if such people had rather disturb the public peace than contain their personal ideas , then their ...
... less obliged than the party of tradition to be wise and judicious in respect of the methods they use to promote their opinions . For , ' if such people had rather disturb the public peace than contain their personal ideas , then their ...
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... less than full citizens , even when they ' tolerated ' them . For Bayle and his small circle , who sought to reverse Gallican public policy , a restoration of the former Edicts of Toleration on the same terms as before would have been ...
... less than full citizens , even when they ' tolerated ' them . For Bayle and his small circle , who sought to reverse Gallican public policy , a restoration of the former Edicts of Toleration on the same terms as before would have been ...
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