Anticlerical Legacies - The Deistic Reception of Thomas Hobbes, C. 16701740

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.

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Elad Carmel
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2024
• EAN: 9781526168825
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6882-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), History of Religion, British & Irish history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699