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Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe - The Revival of Momus, the Agnostic God (Hardcover)
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Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe - The Revival of Momus, the Agnostic God (Hardcover)
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In this book, George McClure examines the intellectual tradition of
challenges to religious and literary authority in the early modern
era. He explores the hidden history of unbelief through the lens of
Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery. Surveying his
revival in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and
England, McClure shows how Momus became a code for religious doubt
in an age when such writings remained dangerous for authors. Momus
('Blame') emerged as a persistent and subversive critic of divine
governance and, at times, divinity itself. As an emblem or as an
epithet for agnosticism or atheism, he was invoked by writers such
as Leon Battista Alberti, Anton Francesco Doni, Giordano Bruno,
Luther, and possibly, in veiled form, by Milton in his depiction of
Lucifer. The critic of gods also acted, in sometimes related
fashion, as a critic of texts, leading the army of Moderns in
Swift's Battle of the Books, and offering a heretical archetype for
the literary critic.
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