Voltaire

Tratado Sobre La Tolerancia Voltaire

Publisher Marketing: La intolerancia religiosa en Europa durante el siglo XVIII cobro muchas victimas, entre ellas Jean Calas, un modesto comerciante frances que profesaba la religion protestante quien fue erroneamente acusado y juzgado por asesinar a su hijo en 1762. La sentencia fue morir en la rueda, un brutal instrumento que desmembraba a los condenados. Escrito en 1763, Voltaire reflexiona sobre las verdaderas razones de la sentencia de culpabilidad y la intolerancia religiosa de la sociedad. Una obra imprescindible en estos dias donde los seres humanos seguimos segregando, acusando y luchando por la intolerancia religiosa." Contributor Bio:  Voltaire Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, "Candide" remains the most popular. Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for "Six Early Stories "by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for "The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-three New Stories." Widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel, he also translated Gogol's "Taras Bulba" and Tolstoy's "The Cossacks "for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications, including "The New Yorker, Harper's," and "Paris Review. "He lives in New York City.