Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections (Hackett Classics)

By Pierre Bayle

Book Overview

Richard Popkin' s meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle' s four Clarifications. The bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans,Paulicians,Pyrrho,Rorarius,Simonides,Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087220104X
• ISBN13: 9780872201040
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.5"