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Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

Author:
Voltaire
Published:
November 2000
Availability:
Available
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521649698
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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 that they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times.

    • Deals with the topical subjects of religious intolerance and fanaticism
    • Of interest to readers in history and French as well as philosophy
    • Lively translation of the main text, the Treatise on Tolerance

    Product details

    • Published: November 2000
    • Format: Paperback
    • ISBN: 9780521649698
    • Length: 192 pages
    • Dimensions: 226 × 152 × 15 mm
    • Weight: 0.27kg
    • Availability: Available

    Table of Contents

    • 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.

    Author

    Voltaire

    Editor and translator

    Simon Harvey , Queen Mary University of London

    Translator

    Brian Masters