Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France - Couverture souple

Cushing, Max Pearson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781391122 ISBN 13 : 9781781391129

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2012

Synopsis

M. P. Cushing's scholarly study of the life and works of Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Baron d'Holbach, the noted eighteenth century Prussian-French polymath, includes the events of his life, his many and varied publications, many of which were published pseudonymously to avoid scandal, the controversies stirred up by has forthright atheism, examples of his correspondence and an extensive bibliography. The text of this new edition from Benediction Classics has been carefully hand-edited, and to assist the reader, translations of the many French quotations, and the long German passage from Goethe, have been added.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Written in part requirement for a Ph.D. The following study proposes to deal with this attack on religion that preceded and helped to prepare the French Revolution. Similar phenomena are by no means rare in the annals of history; eighteenth-century atheism, however, is of especial interest, standing as it does at the end of a long period of theological and ecclesiastical disintegration and prophesying a reconstruction of society on a purely rational and naturalistic basis. The anti-theistic movement has been so obscured by the less thoroughgoing tendency of deism and by subsequent romanticism that the real issue in the eighteenth century has been largely lost from view. Hence it has seemed fit to center this study about the man who stated the situation with the most unmistakable and uncompromising clearness, and who still occupies a unique though obscure position in the history of thought.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781391122
• ISBN 13: 9781781391129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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