Historical and critical dictionary : selections

Author(s)

• Bayle, Pierre
• Popkin, Richard Henry
• Brush, Craig

Bibliographic Information

Historical and critical dictionary : selections

Pierre Bayle ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by Richard H. Popkin ; with the assistance of Craig Brush

Hackett Pub. Co., c1991

• : pbk
• : cloth

Other Title

Dictionnaire historique et critique

Note

'Dictionnaire historique et critique' was first published in 1697

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx-xxxvi) and index

Originally published in 1965 by Bobbs-Merrill

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA64875123
• ISBN:
  • 0872201031
  • 087220104X
• LCCN: 90005246
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Indianapolis
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 456 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B1825.D53213
  • DC20 : 190
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biography -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Philosophy -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Theology -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Science -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Skepticism -- Dictionaries