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Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729 (Paperback)
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Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729 (Paperback)
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Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French
certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as
absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was
explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a
categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism.
The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this
book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean
argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved
real voice and life. This book examines the Epicurean inheritance
and explains what constituted actual atheistic thinking in
early-modern France, distinguishing such categorical unbelief from
other challenges to orthodox beliefs. Without understanding the
actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship,
protocols, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the
early-modern generation and dissemination of atheism are
inexplicable. This book brings to life both early-modern French
Christian learned culture and the atheists who emerged from its
intellectual vitality.
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