Philosophical Dictionary
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- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2004
Summary
A series of short and radical essays, analyzing the conventions of thought in eighteenth-century France.
Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collect…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442571 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014044257X |
| Author: | Francois Voltaire, Theodore Besterman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Francois Voltaire
Voltaire (1694 - 1778) became known in Paris for his satires and odes, and his first tragedy Oedipe was performed with great success. He was imprisoned in the Bastille twice in his life and after the second time spent time in England (1726 - 29). He returned to France, but his political opinions meant he was never really safe there and he eventually settled in Geneva, where he remained until near the end of his life and wrote his most famous works, including Candide.
Theodore Beterman is the founder and director of the Institut et Musee Voltaire, and author of the standard biography on Voltaire.
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