Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications.

There is no other English translation of this book in print -- the only other version was printed in 1708.

This is volume selects political writings from Bayle's work and presents its author as a specifically political thinker.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.