A pocket philosophical dictionary / Voltaire ; translated by John Fletcher ; with an introduction an...
A pocket philosophical dictionary / Voltaire ; translated by John Fletcher ; with an introduction an...
A pocket philosophical dictionary / Voltaire ; translated by John Fletcher ; with an introduction and notes by Nicholas Cronk.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Date
2011.
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N194/249
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English
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Physical content
xxxvi, 283 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- Note on the text -- Note on the translation -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Voltaire -- A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary -- Appendix : Two portraits of Voltaire in 1764 -- Explanatory notes.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011.
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Summary
Here is the only available English translation of one of the landmarks of European Enlightenment thought, Voltaire's 1764 edition of A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary. Highly entertaining and still highly relevant, the "dictionary" actually consists of a sequence of short essays, arranged in alphabetical order, covering everything from Apocalypse a...
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A pocket philosophical dictionary / Voltaire ; translated by John Fletcher ; with an introduction and notes by Nicholas Cronk.
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Oxford world's classics.
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N194/249
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74VvONRxRMAg
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ISBN
0199553637
9780199553631
DDC
194
MMS ID
991008515049702626
