Description
Product ID: | 9780872201033 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Hackett Classics |
Title: | Historical and Critical Dictionary |
Subtitle: | Selections |
Authors: | Author: Pierre Bayle, Richard H. Popkin |
Page Count: | 496 |
Subjects: | Reference works, Reference works, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents the articles of philosophical and theological interest - those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for various eighteenth-century discussions, including "David", "Manicheans", "Paulicians", "Pyrrho", "Rorarius", "Simonides", "Spinoza", and "Zeno of Elea". 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. |
Imprint Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
Publisher Name: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1991-02-27 |