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Bayle--political writings

Author: Pierre Bayle; Sally Jenkinson
Publisher: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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, Hume, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Sally L. Jenkinson's new edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental work. This is the first volume in English to select political writings from Bayle's work and to present its author as a  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Early works to 1800
Dictionaries Early works to 1800
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pierre Bayle; Sally Jenkinson
ISBN: 0521470943 9780521470940 0521476771 9780521476775 9780521549448 0521549442
OCLC Number: 39875197
Description: lxiii, 367 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgements --
A note on the translation --
List of abbreviations --
Introduction: A Defence of Justice and Freedom --
Chronology --
Bibliography --
Project for a critical dictionary --
Bodin --
Brutus --
David --
Elizabeth --
Gregory --
Hobbes --
De l'Hopital --
Hotman --
Japan --
Juno --
Loyola --
Machiavelli --
Macon --
Mariana --
Navarre --
Nicole --
Ovid --
Sainctes --
Sainte-Aldegonde --
Socinus (Marianus) --
Socinus (Faustus) --
Synergists --
Xenophanes --
Clarifications: On Atheists and On Obscenities --
Atheists --
Obscenities --
Index.
Series Title: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought.
Other Titles: Dictionnaire historique et critique.
Political writings
Responsibility: edited by Sally L. Jenkinson.
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"...sharply argued and astutely arranged essays, which are above all marked by the sophistication and maturity of judgment they collectively display...Recommended." -C.S. Vilmar, Salisbury University, Read more...

 
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