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Pierre Bayle's
DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE
Fifth Edition
1734
5 Massive FOLIO Volumes (42 cm x 28 cm) - COMPLETE
Full Leather, contemporary speckled calf bindings
Author: Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
Title: Dictionaire historique et critique / par Mr. Pierre bayle ; avec la vie de l'auteur, par Mr. Des Maizeaux.
Edition: Cinquiéme édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée.
Publisher: Amsterdam : Par la Compagnie des Libraries, 1734.
Edition Date: 1734
Language: French
Notes: Engraved title vignettes and head-pieces.
Ce gigantesque ouvrage se présent en cinq volumes divisés comme suit:
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Préface
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Vie de Monsieur BAYLE par M. de MAIZEAUX
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Dictionnaire proprement dit avec de nombreuses remarques et gloses
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Dissertations philosophiques, notamment sur les Athées, Obscénités, Hippomanes
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Jugement du Public
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Remarques, Critiques etc.....
Cinq volumes in folio (42 cm X 28 cm) de 857 p + 1004 p + 804 p + 985 p + 887 p + 103 p de suppléments.
Reliure strictement de l'époque.
Tous les volumes sont en plein veau blond moucheté en bon état, charnières solides, gardes entières, texte très pur.
Légère mouillure en bas du tome 5 sur 3 centimètres sans atteinte au texte.
Un manque en haut du tome IV. Coins émoussés. Sur le tome 1 coiffe endommagée.
Pièces de titre en maroquin bordeau.
Dos richement orné ..
La réédition de 1969 vaut 1500 euros.
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The author, Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), a rationalist philospher whose thought & writings had a major influence on the development of the French Enlightenment. Because of the intolerance in France toward Huguenots, Bayle spent most of his life in Rotterdam.
Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique stands as the supreme achievement of one of the seventeenth century's most prominent men of letters. Based in Rotterdam, Bayle (French Huguenot philosopher and moralist) animated intellectual discussion in Europe through his work as editor and author and as a prolific correspondant. Originally conceived as a response to the errors in Louis Moréri's Grand dictionnaire historique, his Dictionnaire historique et critique grew to be an exemplary work of critical methodology. The Bayle Dictionnaire has been called the "Arsenal of the Enlightenment".
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was a Huguenot, i.e., a French Protestant, who spent almost the whole of his productive life as a refugee in Holland. His life was devoted entirely to scholarship, and his erudition was second to none in his, or perhaps any, period. Much of what he wrote was embedded in technical religious issues such as that of the real presence (roughly, the relation between Christ and the sacrament of the Eucharist). Nonetheless, for a century he was one the most widely read philosophers ever. In particular, his Dictionnaire historique et critique was the single most popular work of the eighteenth century. The content of this huge and strange, yet fascinating work is difficult to describe: history, literary criticism, theology, obscenity, and much more, in addition to philosophical treatments of toleration, the problem of evil, epistemological questions, and much more. His influence on the Enlightenment was, whether intended or not, largely subversive. Said Voltaire: "the greatest master of the art of reasoning that ever wrote, Bayle, great and wise, all systems overthrows."
Lennon, Thomas M., "Pierre Bayle", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2003 Edition), Edward N. ZaltaÝ(ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2003/entries/bayle.
Bibliography
A. Primary literature
* Bayle, Pierre, 1697 (2nd ed. 1702) Dictionnaire historique et critique, Rotterdam: Leers
* ----, 1734 (2nd ed.), The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr Peter Bayle, trans. P.Desmaizeaux, London: Knapton et al.[A colorful, but generally reliable and complete translation of Bayle's great work, reprinted in 1984 from New York: Garland Publishing.]
* ----, 1965, Historical and Critical Dictionary, trans. Richard H. Popkin, Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill [A useful translation of much of the philosophically most important material from the Dictionnaire.]
* ----, 1727-31 (2nd ed. 1737) Oeuvres diverses, The Hague: Husson (2nd ed. Cie. Des Libraires) [The rest of Bayle's work, with supplementary volumes in an edition appearing since 1964 from Hildesheim: Olms.]
B. Secondary literature
* Brush , Craig, 1966, Montaigne and Bayle: Variations on the theme of skepticism, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff [A somewhat dated but still useful account.]
* Dibon, Paul, ed., 1959, Pierre Bayle: Le philosophe de Rotterdam, Amsterdam: Elsevier [The beginning of modern Bayle scholarship, with a number of still-important papers]
* Kilcullen, John, 1988, Sincerity and Truth, Oxford: Clarendon Press [A brilliant account of the views on toleration of not only Bayle, but also Arnauld.]
* Labroussse, Elizabeth, 1963, Pierre Bayle Vol.1: Du pays de Foix › la cit d'Erasme, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff [A modern biography by the doyenne of Bayle scholarship.]
* ----, 1964, Vol.2: HÈterodoxie et rigourisme [A monumental work to be consulted for any serious work on Bayle.]
* ----, 1983, Bayle, trans. Denys Potts, Oxford: Oxford University Press [ The best introduction to Bayle: clear, accessible and authoritative. A model of its kind in the Past Masters Series.]
* Lennon, Thomas M., 1999, Reading Bayle, Toronto: University of Toronto Press [An attempt to deal with the Bayle enigma from the perspective of Academic skepticism.]
* Maia Neto, Jose, 1997, "Academic Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy", Journal of The History of Ideas: 199-220 [The pioneering paper that opened up discussion of Academic skepticism, as distinct from Pyrrhonism, in theearly modern period.]
* Mori, Gianluca, 1999, Bayle: philosophe, Paris : Honoré Champion [By far the best argument that the logic of Bayle's thought leads to atheism ; generally of a quality second to none in the literature.]
* O'Cathesaigh, Sean, 1989, "Bayle's Commentaire philosophique, 1686," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, no.260 [An important article on Bayle's account of toleration.]
* Paganini, Gianni, 1980, Analisi della fede e critica della ragione nella filosofia di Pierre Bayle Florence: La Nuova Italia [By a leading Italian historian of early modern philosophy.]
* Popkin, Richard. H., 1980, The High Road to Pyrrhonism, San Diego: Austin Hill Press [One article on Bayle (and Hume), and many more at least referring to him. Bayle and Hume are mentioned passim far more often than any other author.]
* ----, and Vanderjagt, eds., 1993 Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Leiden: E.J. Brill [Among other good things, this volume contains an important paper by Harry M. Bracken on Bayle's skepticism.]
* Rex, Walter, 1965, Essays on Pierre Bayle and Religious Controversy, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff [An account of the Calvinism that dominates Bayle's work, especially before 1687.]
* Whelan, Ruth, 1989, The Anatomy of Superstition: A Study of the historical theory and practice of Pierre Bayle, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. [A thoroughly scholarly and accessible account of Bayle from as important a perspective as any: as an historian.]
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