E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten
Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Carmel Anticlerical legacies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6883-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, <i>c.</i> 1670–1740
E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten
Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6883-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.
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Introduction
1 The early days of English deism (c. 1670–1695)
2 The deist controversy (1696–1710)
3 The age of freethinking (1711–1723)
4 The last battle (1724–1740)
Conclusion