Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections

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.

• Author
• Pierre Bayle, Richard H. Popkin

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 496

• Publisher
• Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780872201033

• Genres
• philosophy, history, france, historical

• Release date
• 1991