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Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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For readers interested in Enlightenment philosophy

Addresses modern issues of tolerance and belief

You will gain a deeper understanding of human rights

Discover Voltaire's powerful insights on tolerance and human dignity in this essential treatise.

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.
Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance and Candide (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Candide (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

  • Title

    Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

  • Author

    Voltaire

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2000

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521649698

  • ISBN-10

    0521649692

  • Eden Code

    4575331