num_pages: 496
description: 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.
language: English
title: Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
titlecomplete: Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
genres: Historical, France, Religion, Philosophy, French Literature, Nonfiction, Essays, History
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.