Various thoughts on the occasion of a comet / Pierre Bayle ; translated with notes and an interpretive essay by Robert C. Bartlett.

By:

Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706

Contributor(s):

Bartlett, Robert C, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xlvii, 332 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585300437
9780585300436
0791445488
9780791445488

Uniform titles:

Pens�ees diverses sur la com�ete. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Various thoughts on the occasion of a comet.DDC classification:

133.3/34 21

LOC classification:

BF1779.C6 B3913 2000eb

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Summary: The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print - the only other version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the history of the modern Enlightenment. -- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index.

The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print - the only other version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the history of the modern Enlightenment. -- Provided by publisher.

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