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.