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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... matters of science , psychology and theology , through criticism and through sceptical epistemology they found an import- ant way of discussing their disagreements . " Descartes's method in particular attracted critical minds from both ...
... matters of science , psychology and theology , through criticism and through sceptical epistemology they found an import- ant way of discussing their disagreements . " Descartes's method in particular attracted critical minds from both ...
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... matter at issue therefore was about government , not religion . If the society in which scholars offered free criticism of one another's conjectures was as orderly as the society which forbade it , then free communities had a better ...
... matter at issue therefore was about government , not religion . If the society in which scholars offered free criticism of one another's conjectures was as orderly as the society which forbade it , then free communities had a better ...
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