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A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

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A Philosophical Dictionary
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Publisher: Wynne and Scholey
ISBN/ASIN: 1456498495
Number of pages: 398

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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, enormously influential work of sardonic wit.

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