Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception
Selected Papers of the Tercentenary Conference held at Rotterdam, 7–8 December 2006
Biographical note
Wiep van Bunge, PhD. (1990) in Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, is Professor in the History of Philosophy at the Erasmus University. His publications include From Stevin to Spinoza (Brill, 2001). He (co-)edited Disguised and Overt Spinozism around 1700 (Brill, 1996) and The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic (2003).
Hans Bots, PhD. (1971), University of Nijmegen. Since 1976 professor in Nijmegen in the History of Intellectual Relations between the West-European Countries in the Early Modern Period. Author and editor of many publications on the history of the Republic of Letters, learned correspondences and journalism of the 17th and 18th centuries. He coedited Les Grands intermédiaires culturels de la République des Lettres (Paris: Champion, 2007).
Hans Bots, PhD. (1971), University of Nijmegen. Since 1976 professor in Nijmegen in the History of Intellectual Relations between the West-European Countries in the Early Modern Period. Author and editor of many publications on the history of the Republic of Letters, learned correspondences and journalism of the 17th and 18th centuries. He coedited Les Grands intermédiaires culturels de la République des Lettres (Paris: Champion, 2007).
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, religious history, the Refuge and the Enlightenment.
Reviews
"The book gives readers a scrupulously reliable and often insightful introduction to Bayle’s life and thought." J.B. Shank, H-France Review, vol. 11 (2011) 194, pp. 1-14.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. La vie culturelle à Rotterdam du temps de Bayle, Lenie van Lieshout
2. Dutch Cartesians in Bayle’s Dictionary, Theo Verbeek
3. Bayle and Occasionalism: The Argument from Continuous Creation, Todd Ryan
4. Comets in Context. Some Thoughts on Bayle’s Pensées diverses, Eric Jorink
5. Pierre Bayle et les catholiques, Hans Bots
6. Pierre Bayle, un “protestant compliqué”, Hubert Bost
7. Bayle et les théologies philosophiques de son temps, Gianni Paganini
8. Bayle and Judaism, Adam Sutcliffe
9. Bayle’s Double Image during the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel
10. L’édition allemande du Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1741-1744) par Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie-Hélène Quéval
11. Bayle in the English Enlightenment, Justin Champion
12. The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic, Wiep van Bunge
13. Bayle in Two Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth Century: His Presence in L’année littéraire and Journal encyclopédique, Jan de Vet
14. Pierre Bayle and Some of the Figures in His Dictionnaire as seen by De Gids and a Number of Nineteenth-Century Dutch Freethinker and Freemason Periodicals, Rob van der Schoor
15. Pierre Bayle in the Twentieth Century, Antony McKenna
Index
Introduction
1. La vie culturelle à Rotterdam du temps de Bayle, Lenie van Lieshout
2. Dutch Cartesians in Bayle’s Dictionary, Theo Verbeek
3. Bayle and Occasionalism: The Argument from Continuous Creation, Todd Ryan
4. Comets in Context. Some Thoughts on Bayle’s Pensées diverses, Eric Jorink
5. Pierre Bayle et les catholiques, Hans Bots
6. Pierre Bayle, un “protestant compliqué”, Hubert Bost
7. Bayle et les théologies philosophiques de son temps, Gianni Paganini
8. Bayle and Judaism, Adam Sutcliffe
9. Bayle’s Double Image during the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel
10. L’édition allemande du Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1741-1744) par Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie-Hélène Quéval
11. Bayle in the English Enlightenment, Justin Champion
12. The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic, Wiep van Bunge
13. Bayle in Two Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth Century: His Presence in L’année littéraire and Journal encyclopédique, Jan de Vet
14. Pierre Bayle and Some of the Figures in His Dictionnaire as seen by De Gids and a Number of Nineteenth-Century Dutch Freethinker and Freemason Periodicals, Rob van der Schoor
15. Pierre Bayle in the Twentieth Century, Antony McKenna
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