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Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet (Hardcover)
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Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet (Hardcover)
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The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to
be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest
thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the
present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle
task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political
life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion,
unique in the history of political thought until then, that a
decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no
other English translation of this book in print -- the only other
version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a
recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and
includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the
arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the
history of the modern Enlightenment.
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