Alan Charles Kors

Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how French Christian culture allowed the dissemination of Epicureanism, which denied divine design. In its wake, an assertive atheism appeared.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781107584921
• ISBN-10: 1107584922
• Artikelnr.: 53544500

Autorenporträt

Alan Charles Kors is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and the Folger Library. He is also co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He has published the Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment (2003), Atheism in France, 1650¿1729 (1990) and D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris (1976).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reading Epicurus
2. The Epicureans
3. At the boundaries of unbelief
4. Historians' atheists and historical atheists
Conclusion
Bibliography.