The Politics of Appropriation: Erasmus and Bayle
Over the centuries, the local elites of Rotterdam have gone out of their way to cultivate the memory of Erasmus. From the sixteenth century onwards to this day, he has been consistently put forward as the city’s greatest son. During the early 1690’s, when Pierre Bayle, “le philosophe de Rotterdam”, was facing dismissal as professor of the Illustrious School of Rotterdam, he launched an attempt to save his position by reminding his employers of his allegiance to Erasmus’ heritage. Although Bayle would be fired just the same, we have every reason to take his Erasmianism seriously. In particular, Bayle’s critical attitude as an historian is reminiscent of Erasmus’ philological stance.
Pierre Bayle In The Twentieth Century
This chapter suggests that the debate on Bayle's fundamental philosophical and religious positions is now subject to misrepresentation by means of a false conception of "reading between the lines". Orthodox readers (or defenders of a Calvinist or at least Christian interpretation of Bayle's thought) seem at present to believe that they are reading Bayle loyally, faithfully and literally, whereas heterodox readers (defenders of a heterodox interpretation) are accused of torturing the text, seeking out improbable equivocations and ambiguities, in order to discover Bayle's disguised intention (and unsuspectingly to impose their own philosophy on the innocent text). The chapter goes into these different readings of Bayle in a moment, but perhaps it can make a simple and obvious point at the outset: we are all reading between the lines and moreover we all read all texts between the lines. Keywords: philosophical positions; Pierre Bayle; religious positions
First Insights into the Draft Genome Sequence of the Endophyte Paenibacillus amylolyticus Strain GM1FR, Isolated from Festuca rubra L.
ABSTRACT Paenibacillus amylolyticus strain GM1FR is an endophyte isolated from aerial plant tissues of Festuca rubra L. Here, we report the draft genome sequence (7.3 Mb) of GM1FR containing 6,241 protein-coding genes, some of which are potentially involved in plant growth promotion and biocontrol.