The Treatise of the Three Impostors and the Problem of Enlightenment: A New Translation of the Traite DES Trois Imposteurs with Three Essays in Commentary

by Abraham Anderson

Overview

Including the first English edition of the Treatise of the Three Impostors since 1904, this book examines the treatise in its literary, political, and philosophical context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780585229911
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	455 KB

About the Author

Abraham Anderson is assistant professor of philosophy at University of New Mexico. He has published articles in Philosophical Quarterly, Ancient Philosophy, and Interpretation.

Editorial Reviews

This volume contains a new, accurate translation of one version of the Treatise along with related works which were published together in a 1777 edition. ...Anderson's fascinating essays should interest students of early modern philosophy.......

Albert E. Gunn and Staff - Christopher Kelly

This volume makes available in English a capital text of the radical, anti-religious Enlightenment. Anderson's extensive annotations and interpretive essay provide a rich introduction to the work's philosophic context and implications.

Thomas Pangle

This is a useful volume.

History Of Poltical Thought

There is a whole world here—little known to anglophone scholarship—that may have had more influence on the development of modern political theory and philosophy than many of the 'greats'.

John Christian Laursen

This volume contains a new, accurate translation of one version of the Treatise along with related works which were published together in a 1777 edition.
...Anderson's fascinating essays should interest students of early modern philosophy...
— Christopher Kelly, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Albert E. Gunn and Staff