Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment

Name: Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780198227366

ISBN-10: 0198227361

ISBN-13: 9780198227366

Edition: 1992

Authors: Michael Hunter, David Wootton

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The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation. Atheism was illegal everywhere. The word itself first entered the vernacular languages soon after the Reformation, but it was not until the eighteenth century that the first systematic defences of unbelief began to appear in print. Its history in the intervening two centuries is significant but hitherto obscure. The leading scholars who have contributed to this volume offer a range of approaches and…

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List price: $240.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

A renowned world expert on Robert Boyle,Michael Hunteris professor of history, Birkbeck College, University of London.

The late Lee Curress, Professor Emeritus, English, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, taught and published American literature, folklore, composition and literary censorship and was a member and chair of the NCTE Committee Against Censorship.



Notes on Contributors


Introduction



New Histories of Atheism



Unbelief and Atheism in Italy 1500-1700



Pierre Charron's 'Scandalous Book'



The 'Christian Atheism' of Thomas Hobbes



The Charge of Atheism and the Language of Radical Speculation 1640-1660



Jewish Anti-Christian Arguments as a Source of Irreligion from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century



The First edition of the Traite des trois imposteurs and its Debt to Spinoza's Ethics



'Aikenhead the Atheist': The Context and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the Late Seventeenth Century



Disclaimers as Offence Mechanicms in Charles Blount and John Toland



The Atheism of d'Holbach and Naigeon


Index