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Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.

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a marvellously Swiftian look at the bleakness of existence. * Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian *
In John Fletcher's wonderfully luminous translation, the Dictionnaire philosophique portatif is like a breath of fresh air... Nicholas Cronk's discreet, helpful introduction and notes direct us to Voltaire's main concern: religion. * David Coward, Times Literary Supplement *

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary Oxford Worlds

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 11 August 2011
      ISBN-13 9780199553631
      978-0199553631
      ISBN-10 0199553637
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      Biography Essays Religion Comparative religion Religion and politics Books by Voltaire

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.

      Trade Review
      a marvellously Swiftian look at the bleakness of existence. * Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian *
      In John Fletcher's wonderfully luminous translation, the Dictionnaire philosophique portatif is like a breath of fresh air... Nicholas Cronk's discreet, helpful introduction and notes direct us to Voltaire's main concern: religion. * David Coward, Times Literary Supplement *

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