Pierre Bayle 1647-1706, Le Philosophe De Rotterdam, Philosophy, Religion and Reception

by Bunge, Wiep Van; Bots, Hans

• ISBN13: 9789004165366
• ISBN10: 9004165363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This 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 Bayles 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."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
La vie culturelle a Rotterdam du temps de Bayle	p. 3
Dutch Cartesians in Bayle's Dictionary	p. 21
Bayle and Occasionalism: The Argument from Continuous Creation	p. 35
Comets in Context. Some Thoughts on Bayle's Pensees diverses	p. 51
Pierre Bayle et les catholiques	p. 69
Pierre Bayle, un [double left angle bracket]protestant complique[double right angle bracket]	p. 83
Bayle et les theologies philosophiques de son temps	p. 103
Bayle and Judaism	p. 121
Bayle's Double Image during the Enlightenment	p. 135
L'edition allemande du Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1741-1744) par Johann Christoph Gottsched	p. 153
Bayle in the English Enlightenment	p. 175
The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic	p. 197
Bayle in Two Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth Century: His Presence in L'annee litteraire and Journal encyclopedique	p. 217
Pierre Bayle and Some of the Figures in His Dictionaire as seen by De Gids and a Number of Nineteenth-Century Dutch Freethinker and Freemason Periodicals	p. 231
Pierre Bayle in the Twentieth Century	p. 253
Index Nominum	p. 269
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