Voltaire: Voltaire | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical Letters and Philosophical Dictionary. He is equally renowned as a critic of the forces of superstition and fanaticism, and a champion of freedom of thought and belief. The works presented here, 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. This volume presents them together with an introduction by Simon Harvey and useful notes on further reading.

Über den Autor

François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Treatise on tolerance; The story of Elisabeth Canning and the Calas family; An address to the public concerning the parricides imputed to the Calas and Sirven families; An account of the death of the Chevalier de la Barre; The cry of innocent blood.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521649698
ISBN-10:	0521649692
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Voltaire Voltaire, Voltaire
Redaktion:	Harvey, Simon
Übersetzung:	Harvey, Simon Masters, Brian
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Voltaire (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.10.2004
Gewicht:	0,287 kg