Voltaire Treatise on Tolerance |
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Author:
| Voltaire, |
Edited and Translated by:
| Harvey, Simon |
Contribution by:
| Ameriks, Karl Clarke, Desmond M. |
Translator:
| Masters, Brian |
Series title: | Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-64017-6 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2000 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $131.95 |
Book Description:
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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 which they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and...
More DescriptionThe 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 which they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times.