Bayle: Political Writings

by Bayle, Sally L. Jenkinson

Overview

Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique was a bestseller throughout Europe for two centuries. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly new edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's vast work, uncovering Bayle's progressive views on toleration and elitism. This anthology is the first in English to present Bayle as a specifically political thinker. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521476775
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/03/2000
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.54(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; A note on the translation; List of abbreviations; Introduction: a defence of justice and freedom; Chronology; Bibliography; Project for a critical dictionary: from Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique; Atheists; Obscenities; Index.