Voltaire, La Bible enfin expliquée

Voltaire, La Bible enfin expliquée

Édition de Bertram E. Schwarzbach,

Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, série "Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire", 2012.

• 828 p.
• £135 / €166 / $217
• EAN13 : 9780729410175

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Vers la fin de sa vie Voltaire publie son dernier et son plus ambitieux essai d'exégèse de la Bible, où il attaque le Vieux Testament, les superstitions chrétiennes, et l'intolérance; cette édition présente de façon exhaustive et érudite les objectifs, les méthodes, les sources ... et les erreurs de l'écrivain.

 Voltaire’s La Bible enfin expliquée is a verse-by-verse Bible commentary, a massive attack on a polemicist who has been tormenting him for years, and a historical reconstruction of the progressive confirmation of Christianity: this is the plan Voltaire puts in practice once he reaches the age of eighty-two. Two closely intertwined reasons drive him to do so. On the one hand, Voltaire has already given himself to posterity with the authority of a patriarch, gaining the support of many of his contemporaries but also a series of attacks by such as Warburton, Larcher, Nonnotte, Guenée. Voltaire’s pride obliges him to respond to all the accusations he receives. On the other hand, having lamented his imminent death since his twenties, Voltaire reaches his eighties having a clear perception of approaching death, and has no intention of conceding to his enemies the honour of having the last word. He therefore hastily tries to compile twenty years of religious writing in an ultimate fresco of his favourite subjects.

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