Positive Atheism

Bayle, Meslier, d'Holbach, Diderot

Charles Devellenes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7843-4 (ISBN)

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Charles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy. He shows how atheism evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors: from the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late 17th century, to a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution. The metamorphosis of atheism from a purely negative phenomenon to one that became self-aware had profound consequences for establishing an ethics without God and the rise of republicanism as a political philosophy.

Charles Devellennes is Lecturer in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent. He has published 5 journal articles and 2 book chapters on eighteenth century political thought, particularly in the field of religion and politics. This is his first book which is only broadly based on his PhD research. He received his PhD in 2011.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2021
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-7843-3 / 1474478433
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-7843-4 / 9781474478434
Zustand	Neuware