Voltaire: Voltaire | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780521437271 | Voltaire | Political Writings | Voltaire (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2006

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Beschreibung

This edition of Voltaire's political writings presents a varied selection of his most interesting and controversial texts, many of which have not previously been translated into English. They range over the nature and legitimacy of political power, law and the social order, crime and punishment, liberty and humanity, war and peace, and the growing disorder in the French economy. They also touch on specific issues and events in pre-Revolutionary France to which Voltaire responded and in which he was closely involved, including the Seven Years' War and relations with Frederick II, the Genevan quarrels of the 1760s, and the sensational trials of Jean Calas, Sirven and the Chevalier de La Barre. A comprehensive introduction explores the background to these texts, which together reflect the full range of Voltaire's responses to the most significant issues of his time.

Über den Autor

Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), a French writer, philosopher, dramatist, historian, poet, polemicist, and one of the central figures of the Enlightenment. Born in Paris and educated by Jesuits, he became famous for his wit, literary ambition, attacks on intolerance, and repeated clashes with political and religious authority. His career included imprisonment in the Bastille, exile in England, patronage by aristocrats and monarchs, and a long life of extraordinary productivity.Voltaire wrote across nearly every major literary form of his age: plays, philosophical tales, histories, poems, essays, letters, criticism, and polemical works. His best-known writings include Candide, Letters Concerning the English Nation, Zadig, Micromegas, The Philosophical Dictionary, The Age of Louis XIV, and numerous tragedies and dramatic works. His writing helped popularize Enlightenment ideals of reason, religious toleration, civil liberty, skepticism toward dogma, and resistance to cruelty and fanaticism.Although modern readers often know Voltaire mainly as a satirist and philosopher, he was also one of the most prominent dramatists of eighteenth-century France. His plays drew on classical models, historical subjects, political conflict, religious tension, and moral crisis, reflecting both his literary ambitions and his lifelong concern with power and justice. His influence extended across European literature, political thought, religious criticism, and the development of modern secular intellectual culture.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; Bibliographical note; Select bibliography; Biographical note; Editorial note; Note on translation; Articles from the Pocket Philosophical Dictionary; Articles from the Questions on the Encyclopaedia; The A B C, or Dialogues between A B C, translated from the English by Mr Huet; Other writings: Republican ideas. By a member of a public body; Thoughts on public administration; The rights of men and the usurpations of others; Commentary on the book On Crimes and Punishments; Dialogue between a philosopher and a comptroller-general of finance; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521437271
ISBN-10:	052143727X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Voltaire Frangois Marie, Voltaire Voltaire, Frangois Marie
Redaktion:	Williams, David
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Voltaire (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.09.2006
Gewicht:	0,491 kg