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Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance
Voltaire
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Description for Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance
Paperback. New English translation of several of the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment. Translator(s): Masters, Brian. Series Editor(s): Ameriks, Karl; Clarke, Desmond M. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical Letters and Philosophical Dictionary. He is equally renowned as a critic of the forces of superstition and fanaticism, and a champion of freedom of thought and belief. The works presented here, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed ... Read more
Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical Letters and Philosophical Dictionary. He is equally renowned as a critic of the forces of superstition and fanaticism, and a champion of freedom of thought and belief. The works presented here, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521649698
SKU
V9780521649698
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