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Voltaire's revolution : writings from his campaign to free laws from religion /
"Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was one of the most influential leaders of the French Enlightenment. His defense of individual freedom of conscience and his criticisms of religious fanaticism and oppressive orthodoxy had a telling effect on Western history, inspir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Grateful Thanks to a Charitable Man (1750); Extract from a Decree by ... the Inquisition (1750); In Defense of Milord Bolingbroke (1752); Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit (1756); Dialogues between Lucretius and Posidonius (1756); Reflections for Fools (1760); Letter from Charles Gouju to His Brothers (1761); The Sermon of Rabbi Akib (1761); Extract from the London Gazette (1762); Prayer to God (from Treatise on Tolerance) (1763); Catechism of the Honest Man (1763)
- Omer de Fleury, Having Entered, Have Said (1763)Letter from Mr. Clocpicre to Mr. Eratou (1764); Adapt to the Times (1764); Wives, Submit to Your Husbands (1765); Republican Ideas by a Member of a Corps (1765); Dialogue between a Doubter and a Venerator (1766); Letters to His Highness, the Prince of **** on Rabelais (1767); Letter I: On François Rabelais; Letter II: On the Predecessors of Rabelais, etc.; Letter III: On Vanini; Letter IV: On the English Authors; Letter V: On Swift; Letter VI: On the Germans; Letter VII: On the French; Letter VIII: On the Encyclopedia; Letter IX: On the Jews
- Letter X: On SpinozaDinner at Count de Boulainvilliers' (1767); The Emperor of China and Friar Chuckles (1768); APPENDIX; An Anonymous Character Sketch of Voltaire (1734 or 1735); Oliver Goldsmith on Voltaire; Condorcet's Account of Voltaire's Battle; Madame Suard's Visit to Ferney in 1775; The Count de Ségur on Voltaire's Return to Paris in 1778; La Correspondance Littéraire, Philosophique, et Critique on Voltaire's Death (June 1778); Frederick the Great's Eulogy of Voltaire; Edgar Quinet on The Exterminating Angel (1844); Robert G. Ingersoll on The Great Infidels; Glossary; Notes