Anticlerical Legacies - The Deistic Reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

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.

About the author

Elad Carmel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä.

Product details

• Authors: Elad Carmel
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781526195821
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9582-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 319 mm
• Weight: 12 g
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 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