Voltaire

Traite De Metaphysique Voltaire

Publisher Marketing: Ce premier essai metaphysique (1735) revele une bonne connaissance des questions debattues par la libre pensee au debut du 18eme siecle. Dans les 9 chapitres de ce dernier, Voltaire refute le materialisme athee: Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer, mais la nature tout entiere nous dit qu'il existe, mais il y disqualifie certains dogmes theologiques." 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.