LEADER 03355nam 22006612 450 001 9910136864703321 005 20160607125832.0 010 $a1-316-68328-1 010 $a1-316-68490-3 010 $a1-316-68517-9 010 $a1-316-68544-6 010 $a1-316-68652-3 010 $a1-316-68571-3 010 $a1-316-68625-6 010 $a1-316-22712-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000729491 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001682203 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16507785 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682203 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14934422 035 $a(PQKB)10310778 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316227121 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4575414 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000729491 100 $a20141020d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNaturalism and unbelief in France, 1650-1729 /$fAlan Charles Kors$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016). 311 $a1-107-10663-X 311 $a1-107-51434-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom nature to God -- Reading the ancients and reading Spinoza -- Reductio Ad Naturalismum -- The passion of Malebranche -- Creation and evil. 330 $aAtheism was the most fundamental challenge to early-modern French certainties. Leading educators, theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as manifestly absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism. This book demonstrates that the Christian learned world had always contained the naturalistic 'atheist' as an interlocutor and a polemical foil, and its early-modern engagement and use of the hypothetical atheist were major parts of its intellectual life. In the considerations and polemics of an increasingly fractious orthodox culture, the early-modern French learned world gave real voice and eventually life to that atheistic presence. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, fierce disputes, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of absolute naturalism are inexplicable. This book brings to life that Christian learned culture, its dilemmas, and its unintended consequences. 517 3 $aNaturalism & Unbelief in France, 1650-1729 606 $aNaturalism$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aNaturalism$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAtheism$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAtheism$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xReligion$y17th century 607 $aFrance$xReligion$y18th century 615 0$aNaturalism$xHistory 615 0$aNaturalism$xHistory 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 676 $a211/.8094409032 700 $aKors$b Alan Charles$0157644 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136864703321 996 $aNaturalism and unbelief in France, 1650-1729$92583409 997 $aUNINA