Treatise on Toleration (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Voltaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241236622 ISBN 13: 9780241236628

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2017

Synopsis

One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French bestseller in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
 
In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his son. As it became clear that Calas was in fact persecuted for being a Protestant, Voltaire began a campaign to get his sentence overturned—and in the process made the case for some of the most important values upheld by the Enlightenment, from religious tolerance to freedom of thought. Treatise on Toleration is the story of that case and a screed against fanaticism—a book that is as fresh and urgent today as it was when it was first published in 1763.
 
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About this title

About the Author:

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet; 1694—1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, Candide remains the most popular.
 
Desmond Clarke (translator) is a professor of philosophy at University College Cork and the author of a number of books on Descartes and the seventeenth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241236622
• ISBN 13: 9780241236628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Clarke Desmond M.