num_pages: 192
description: The works presented in this volume, 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 by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues that they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times.
language: English
title: Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings
titlecomplete: Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings
genres: Essays, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, French Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Nonfiction, History, France
ratings_count: 403
publisher: Cambridge University Press