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A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

By Voltaire, John Fletcher, Nicholas Cronk
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$14.95
By Voltaire, John Fletcher, Nicholas Cronk
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Here is the only available English translation of one of the landmarks of European Enlightenment thought, Voltaire's 1764 edition of A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary. Highly entertaining and still highly relevant, the "dictionary" actually consists of a sequence of short essays, arranged in alphabetical order, covering everything from Apocalypse and Atheism to Tolerance and Tyranny. The unifying thread of these articles is Voltaire's vitriolic critique of established religion: ridicule of ...

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