Bayle, Pierre

Perrot C, Gonon L, Bardet M, Marestin C, Pierre-Bayle A, Gebel G, et al. Degradation of a sulfonated aryl ether ketone model compound in oxidative media (sPAEK). Polymer 2009 50(7) 1671-81. 

E. Labrousse Pierre Bayle. Tome I Du pays de foix d la cite d Erasme. 1963 2nd printing 1984 ISBN 90-247-3136-4... 

E. Labrousse Pierre Bayle. Tome II Heterodoxie et rigorisme. 1964... 

Note that if the Church Fathers had believed what the minister [Pierre Jurieu], author of the Pastorales, imputes to them concerning the generation of the Word, they would have had, on the mutability of God, a notion almost as impious as that of Spinoza. See [Bayle,] Janm coelorum reserat [Heaven s Gate is Closed, OD ii, pp. 817-902], pp. 128 et seq. 

Pierre Bayle was among the most important sceptical thinkers of the late seventeenth century. His work was an influence on the ideas of Hume, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire (who acclaimed it for its insight on toleration, and emulated its candour on such subjects as atheism, obscenity, and sexual conduct). Banned in France on first publication in 1697, Bayle s Diaionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into many editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson s masterly new edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle s monumental work (which ran to seven million words). This is the first volume in English to select political writings from Bayle s work and to present its author as a specifically political thinker. Sally L. Jenkinson s authoritative translation, careful selection of texts, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies. 

What is the reputation of Pierre Bayle, and why should his ideas be restored to the canon of political thought. For his Dictionnaire histo-rique et critique, first published in 1697, was for nearly two centuries rarely out of print. As one man s encyclopaedia of error the Dictionary, even at first glance, seemed remarkable. Its most celebrated feature, however, was the extended footnote where the author elaborated his criticisms of current scholarship. Bayle s admirers in the age of the Enlightenment were apt to distil the essence of these comments into just two words tolerance and scepticism. They were notions with which Bayle s name became synonymous, even though his concerns went deeper than his posthumous admirers supposed. For in addition to tolerance and scepticism Bayle s Dictionary promoted justice as the end of government, and critical freedom as its prerequisite. 

Bayle s influence on Shaftesbury is referred to briefly in J. B. Schneewind s The Earl of Shaftesbury (1990). Finally, John Kilcullen s monograph Sincerity and Truth Essays on Arnauld, Bayle and Toleration (1988) opens an avenue for exploring Bayle as a normative thinker before Kant, echoing thereby a subtle thesis advanced by Delvolve in Religion, critique et philosophic positive chez Pierre Bayle (1906). 

Pierre Bayle Historical and Critical Dictionary. Selections, ed. R. H. Popkin trans. R. H. Popkin and C. Brush. 2nd edn. Indianapolis and Cambridge Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 

Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, ed. Elisabeth La-brousse, Edward James, Antony McKenna, Maria-Christina Pitassi, Ruth Whelan. Vol. i, 1662-1674, Lettres 1 5. 10 vols. (Vols. II X forthcoming.) Oxford Voltaire Foundation. 

Abel, O. and P. F. Moreau (eds.) (1995), Pierre Bayle la foi dans k doute. Geneva Labor et Fides. 

Bost, Hubert (c. 1989/90), Pierre Bayle et la Glorieuse Revolution d Angleterre , in Michel Peronnet (ed.), Protestantisme et Revolution. Actes du vie Colloque Jean Boisset, Xle Colloque du Centre d Histoire des Reformdes et du Protestantisme. Montpelier Sauramps, pp. 75 88. 

Pierre Bayle et la religion. Paris Presses Universitaires de France. 

Bracken, H. (1990), Pierre Bayle and Freedom of Speech , in E. J. Furcha (ed.). Truth and Tolerance. Montreal McGill University Faculty of Religious Studies, pp. 28 42. 

Cerny, Gerald (1996), Jacques Basnage and Pierre Bayle an Intimate Collaboration in Refugee Literary Circles and in the Affairs of the Republic of Letters, 1685-1706 , in Mag-delaine et al. (1996), pp. 495-508. 

Delvolve, Jean (1906), Religion, critique etphilosophie positive chez Pierre Bayle. Paris F. Alcan. 

Hazard, Paul (1964), Pierre Bayle , in The European Mind. Har-mondsworth Penguin, pp. 124-44. 

Rationality, Pluralism and Reciprocal Tolerance A Reappraisal of Pierre Bayle s Political Thought , in Iain Hampsher-Monk (ed.). Defending Politics Bernard Crick and Pluralism. London and New York British Academic Press, pp. 22 45. 

Labrousse, Elisabeth (1961), Inventaire critique de la correspondence de Pierre Bayle. Paris J. Vrin. 

Pierre Bayle, vol. i Du pays de Foix a la cite d Er-asme vol. n HMrodoxie et rigorisme. The Hague Martinus Nijhoff. 

Mori, G. (1997), Pierre Bayle, the Rights of the Conscience, the Remedy of Toleration , Ratio Juris, 10 (i) (March), pp. 

Paganini, Gianni (1980), Analise de la fede e critica della ragione nella filosofia de Pierre Bayle. Florence La Nuova Italia. 

Retat, Pierre (1971), Le Dictionnaire de Bayle et la lutte philoso-phique au XVIIIe siecle. Paris Vrin. 

Les Debuts de la collaboration entre Adriaan van Pacts, protecteur de Pierre Bayle a Rotterdam, et le gouver-nement de Louis XIV , in Magdelaine et al. (eds.) (1996), PP- 477-94-... 

Tannenbaum, Amie and Donald Tannenbaum (1992), John Locke and Pierre Bayle on Religious Toleration an Enquiry , Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 303, pp. 418 21. 

Tinsley, B. S. (1996), Sozzini s Ghost Pierre Bayle and Socin-... 

Van Lieshout, H. H. M. (1997), Les Querelles lexicales sur la lice de la tolerance Pierre Jurieu attaque dans le Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle, in Berkevens-Stevelinck et al. (eds.), pp. 199 212. 

Whelan, Ruth (1989), The Anatomy of Superstition a Study of the Historical Theory and Praaice of Pierre Bayle. Oxford Oxford University Press. 

Wootton, David (1997), Pierre Bayle, Libertine. , in M. A. Stewart (ed.). Studies in Eighteenth Century European Philosophy. Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 197-226. 

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