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Edition Date: 1734 Language: French Notes: Engraved title vignettes and head-pieces. Ce gigantesque ouvrage se présent en cinq volumes divisés comme suit: * Préface * Vie de Monsieur BAYLE par M. de MAIZEAUX * Dictionnaire proprement dit avec de nombreuses remarques et gloses * Dissertations philosophiques, notamment sur les Athées, Obscénités, Hippomanes * Jugement du Public * Remarques, Critiques etc..... Cinq volumes in folio (42 cm X 28 cm) de 857 p + 1004 p + 804 p + 985 p + 887 p + 103 p de suppléments. Reliure strictement de l'époque. Tous les volumes sont en plein veau blond moucheté en bon état, charnières solides, gardes entières, texte très pur. Légère mouillure en bas du tome 5 sur 3 centimètres sans atteinte au texte. Un manque en haut du tome IV. Coins émoussés. Sur le tome 1 coiffe endommagée. Pièces de titre en maroquin bordeau. Dos richement orné .. La réédition de 1969 vaut 1500 euros. |
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The author, Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), a rationalist philospher whose thought & writings had a major influence on the development of the French Enlightenment. Because of the intolerance in France toward Huguenots, Bayle spent most of his life in Rotterdam. Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique stands as the supreme achievement of one of the seventeenth century's most prominent men of letters. Based in Rotterdam, Bayle (French Huguenot philosopher and moralist) animated intellectual discussion in Europe through his work as editor and author and as a prolific correspondant. Originally conceived as a response to the errors in Louis Moréri's Grand dictionnaire historique, his Dictionnaire historique et critique grew to be an exemplary work of critical methodology. The Bayle Dictionnaire has been called the "Arsenal of the Enlightenment". |
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Bibliography A. Primary literature * Bayle, Pierre, 1697 (2nd ed. 1702) Dictionnaire historique et critique, Rotterdam: Leers * ----, 1734 (2nd ed.), The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr Peter Bayle, trans. P.Desmaizeaux, London: Knapton et al. * ----, 1965, Historical and Critical Dictionary, trans. Richard H. Popkin, Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill * ----, 1727-31 (2nd ed. 1737) Oeuvres diverses, The Hague: Husson (2nd ed. Cie. Des Libraires) B. Secondary literature * Brush , Craig, 1966, Montaigne and Bayle: Variations on the theme of skepticism, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff * Dibon, Paul, ed., 1959, Pierre Bayle: Le philosophe de Rotterdam, Amsterdam: Elsevier * Kilcullen, John, 1988, Sincerity and Truth, Oxford: Clarendon Press * Labroussse, Elizabeth, 1963, Pierre Bayle Vol.1: Du pays de Foix ð la cit d'Erasme, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff * ----, 1964, Vol.2: Heterodoxie et rigourisme * ----, 1983, Bayle, trans. Denys Potts, Oxford: Oxford University Press * Lennon, Thomas M., 1999, Reading Bayle, Toronto: University of Toronto Press * Maia Neto, Jose, 1997, "Academic Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy", Journal of The History of Ideas: 199-220 * Mori, Gianluca, 1999, Bayle: philosophe, Paris : Honoré Champion * O'Cathesaigh, Sean, 1989, "Bayle's Commentaire philosophique, 1686," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, no.260 * Paganini, Gianni, 1980, Analisi della fede e critica della ragione nella filosofia di Pierre Bayle Florence: La Nuova Italia * Popkin, Richard. H., 1980, The High Road to Pyrrhonism, San Diego: Austin Hill Press * ----, and Vanderjagt, eds., 1993 Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Leiden: E.J. Brill * Rex, Walter, 1965, Essays on Pierre Bayle and Religious Controversy, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff * Whelan, Ruth, 1989, The Anatomy of Superstition: A Study of the historical theory and practice of Pierre Bayle, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. |