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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
BAYLE
Political Writings
Pierre Bayle was amongthe 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 , Bayle’s
Dictionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into many
editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson’s masterly new edition pre-
sents 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 ed by schol-
ars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history
and French studies.
. is part-time VisitingProfessor at the Department
of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, and a former
Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of North London.
She has published widely on politics and toleration.
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors
R G
Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Q S
Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly estab-
lished as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to make
available to students all the most important texts in the history of western
political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. All the
familiar classic texts will be included but the series seeks at the same time t