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Book SynopsisThis book contains 15 essays by philosophers, theologians and historians from the Netherlands, France, Italy, England and the United States on Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), the French Protestant who found refuge in Rotterdam just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). From the early 1680s onward, Bayle published a series of seminal works, culminating in his Dictionaire historique et critique (1697), that is generally regarded to have served as the "arsenal" of the Enlightenment. Over the last few decades, Bayle has been rediscovered as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment, but experts have found it extremely difficult to come to any agreement concerning his ultimate position, most notably concerning the relationship between faith and philosophy. In this volume both Bayle's philosophy and his theological views are assessed as well as his impact on the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributors include: Hubert Bost, Hans Bots, Wiep van Bunge, Justin Champion, Jonathan Israel, Eric Jorink, Lenie van Lieshout, Antony McKenna, Gianni Paganini, Marie-Hélène Quéval, Todd Ryan, Adam Sutcliffe, Rob van der Schoor, Theo Verbeek, and Jan de Vet.
Trade Review"The book gives readers a scrupulously reliable and often insightful introduction to Bayle’s life and thought." J.B. Shank, H-France Review, vol. 11 (2011) 194, pp. 1-14.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. La vie culturelle à Rotterdam du temps de Bayle, Lenie van Lieshout 2. Dutch Cartesians in Bayle’s Dictionary, Theo Verbeek 3. Bayle and Occasionalism: The Argument from Continuous Creation, Todd Ryan 4. Comets in Context. Some Thoughts on Bayle’s Pensées diverses, Eric Jorink 5. Pierre Bayle et les catholiques, Hans Bots 6. Pierre Bayle, un “protestant compliqué”, Hubert Bost 7. Bayle et les théologies philosophiques de son temps, Gianni Paganini 8. Bayle and Judaism, Adam Sutcliffe 9. Bayle’s Double Image during the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel 10. L’édition allemande du Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1741-1744) par Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie-Hélène Quéval 11. Bayle in the English Enlightenment, Justin Champion 12. The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic, Wiep van Bunge 13. Bayle in Two Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth Century: His Presence in L’année littéraire and Journal encyclopédique, Jan de Vet 14. Pierre Bayle and Some of the Figures in His Dictionnaire as seen by De Gids and a Number of Nineteenth-Century Dutch Freethinker and Freemason Periodicals, Rob van der Schoor 15. Pierre Bayle in the Twentieth Century, Antony McKenna Index
