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

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.

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

Little progress has been made toward real religious toleration since 1686 when Pierre Bayle penned his Philosophical Commentary which warned of the danger of religious extremism and its political consequences.