This book examines Diderot's and d'Holbach's views on determinism
to illuminate some of the most important debates taking place in
eighteenth-century Europe. Insisting on aspects of Diderot's and
d'Holbach's thought that, to date, have been given scant, if any,
scholarly attention, it proposes to restore both thinkers to their
rightful position in the history of philosophy. The book
problematises Diderot's and d'Holbach's atheism by showing their
philosophy to be deeply rooted in the Christian tradition and
offers a more nuanced and historicised interpretation of the
so-called "Radical Enlightenment", challenging the notions that
this movement can be taken to be a perfectly coherent set of ideas
and that it represents a complete break with "the old". By
examining Diderot's and d'Holbach's works in tandem and without
post-romantic assumptions about originality and single authorship,
it argues that the two philosophers' texts should be taken as the
product of a fascinating collaborative form of philosophical
enquiry that perfectly reflects the sociable nature of intellectual
production during the Enlightenment. The book further proposes a
fresh interpretation of such crucial texts as the Systeme de la
nature and Jacques le fataliste et son maitre and unveils a key web
of concepts that will help researchers to better understand
Enlightenment philosophy and literature as a whole.
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