Título: Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections
Autor: Pierre Bayle
Sinopse: The "Historical and Critical Dictionary" appeared in 1697 and for more than a century and a half remained a fixed star in the European intellectual firmament. One man, Pierre Bayle, a French Protestant emigré living in Rotterdam, was able to record, froam A to Z, and in more than seven million words, all the issues that the age of Louis XIV had to offer the intellectually curious. Bayle's discursive investigation of queens and courtesans, mystics and philosophers, prophets and charlatans, fascinated and inspired both his contemporaries and his successors. Diderot,Leibniz, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hume, Jefferson are but a few who were indebted to Bayle for his brilliance, his erudition, his wit, his catholicity, and, not least, his skepticism. This new edition is an updating of Richard Popkin's superb translation of 1965 for Library of Liberal Arts. It is the most extensive since the eighteenth century. "BAYLE IS INDISPENSABLE TO UNDERSTANDING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY and the birth of modern critical consciousness. There is no better introduction to Pierre Bayle or to deeper study of him than Richard Popkin's selection in this Hackett volume". - ALAN KORS, "The Universe of Pennsylvania".
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections”, de Pierre Bayle, publicado pela editora Hackett, em 1991 e com 456 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Hackett
Páginas: 456
Ano: 1991
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0872201031
ISBN13: 9780872201033
