Historical and Critical Dictionary

by Pierre Bayle

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Bayle's Dictionary is one of the best known and most influential works of the eighteenth century. Banned in Catholic France on first publication in 1697 it became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Its merciless scientific and philosophical enquiring challenged all assumptions and blind reverence for authority, setting new standards for all future encyclopedists. This second English edition is enlarged from the fourth French edition, which in turn had been much show more enlarged from Bayle's manuscripts. Edited and with a life of Bayle by the highly esteemed Pierre Desmaizeaux, this edition represents the most comprehensive English edition available. show less

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Pierre Bayle

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Born at Carla-le-Comte (now Carla-Bayle) in southern France, Pierre Bayle was the son of a French Protestant minister. Because of the persecution of the Huguenots in France, Bayle was forced to flee to Holland in 1681 where he lived the rest of his life. Bayle wrote a large number of works attacking all kinds of theological and philosophical show more theories and opposing all kinds of intolerance; he also edited one of the first major philosophical journals. Bayle's most widely known work is his immense four-folio Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697-1702), in which he developed a complete skepticism about everything that is said and everything that is done. Considered the Arsenal of the Enlightenment, the work greatly influenced Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title: Historical and Critical Dictionary
Original title: Dictionnaire historique et critique
Original publication date: 1820; 1697
People/Characters: Pierre Bayle; Spinoza, Baruch, 1623-1677; Daniel Sennert; Gregory of Rimini; Girolamo Riario; Xenophanes (show all 8); Simonides; Zeno of Verona
Original language: French

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