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Author : Theodore Besterman
Publisher : London, Oxford U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voltaire Essays, and Another written by Theodore Besterman and published by London, Oxford U. P. This book was released on 1962 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Toleration and other essays written by Voltaire and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire writes a long essay questioning the Jean Calas case, reflecting on Christianity and remembering the earthquake in Lisbon. Voltaire, novelist, dramatist, poet, and philosopher was one of the most renowned figures of the Age of Enlightenment.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Great Minds Series
ISBN 13 : 9780879758813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (588 download)
Download or read book A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays written by Voltaire and published by Great Minds Series. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire (1694-1778), novelist, dramatist, poet, philosopher, historian, and satirist, was one of the most renowned figures of the Age of Enlightenment. In this collection of anti-clerical works from the last twenty-five years of Voltaire's life, he roundly attacks the philosophical optimism of the deists, the so-called inspiration of the Bible, the papacy, and vulgar superstition. These great works reveal Voltaire not only as a polemicist but also as a profound humanitarian. Selections include "Poem on the Lisbon Disaster," "We Must Take Sides," "The Questions of Zapate," "The Sermon of the Fifty," homilies on superstition and the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments, and his famous "Treatise on Toleration."
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cesare Beccaria
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584776382
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book An Essay on Crimes and Punishments written by Cesare Beccaria and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.
Author : By Voltaire
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736801785
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Candide written by By Voltaire and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". Candide is characterized by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. As expected by Voltaire, Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it. Today, Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon; it is arguably taught more than any other work of French literature. It was listed as one of The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Toleration and Other Essays written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. Joe Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443843679
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book An American Voltaire written by E. Joe Johnson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France on a variety of topics in French eighteenth-century studies. Essay titles include: “A New Genre: l’Opéra moral / Moral Opera in Eighteenth-Century France,” “Voltaire and the Uses of Censorship: The Example of the Lettres Philosophiques,” “Enlightenment Intertextuality: The Case of Heraldry in the Encyclopédie méthodique,” “Sex as Satire in Voltaire's Fiction,” “Violence, Levity, and the Dictionary in Old Regime France: Chaudon’s Dictionnaire anti-philosophique,” “L’abbé, l’amazone, le bon roi et les frelons,” “Greuze’s Self-Portraits: Figures of Artistic Identity,” “From Forest to Field: Sylvan Elegists of Eighteenth-Century France,” “The Falsification of Voltaire's Letters and the Public Persona of the Author: From the Lettres secrettes (1765) to the Commentaire historique (1776),” “The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765),” “John Law and the Rhetoric of Calculation,” “‘Le Roi des Bulgares’: Was Voltaire's Satire on Frederick the Great just too Opaque?” “Voltaire and the Voyage to Rome,” “Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote,” “Les petits livres du grand homme: polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire,” “Sentimental Horror: Enlightenment Tragedy and the Rise of the Genre Terrible,” “Voltaire and the Comic Genre: Polemics and Rhetoric.”
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Philosophical Dictionary written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175786
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voltaire in Love written by Nancy Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters Concerning the English Nation written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191636711
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Anthony Pagden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since. Cosmopolitanism is an ancient creed; but in its modern form it was a creature of the Enlightenment attempt to create a new 'science of man', based upon a vision of humanity made up of autonomous individuals, free from all the constraints imposed by custom, prejudice, and religion. As Pagden shows, this 'new science' was based not simply on 'cold, calculating reason', as its critics claimed, but on the argument that all humans are linked by what in the Enlightenment were called 'sympathetic' attachments. The conclusion was that despite the many tribes and nations into which humanity was divided there was only one 'human nature', and that the final destiny of the species could only be the creation of one universal, cosmopolitan society. This new 'human science' provided the philosophical grounding of the modern world. It has been the inspiration behind the League of Nations, the United Nations and the European Union. Without it, international law, global justice, and human rights legislation would be unthinkable. As Anthony Pagden argues passionately and persuasively in this book, it is a legacy well worth preserving - and one that might yet come to inherit the earth.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voltaire's Essay on Epic Poetry written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258825980
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Voltaire's Alphabet of Wit written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Voltaire in His Letters written by Voltaire and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1919 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Voltaire
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837640300
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Œuvres complètes de Voltaire (Complete Works of Voltaire) 3B written by David Voltaire and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. The first time he writes for the public in prose on political and religious matters. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.
