LEADER 03179nam 22006132 450 001 9910154672903321 005 20160607115545.0 010 $a1-316-68330-3 010 $a1-316-68492-X 010 $a1-316-68519-5 010 $a1-316-68546-2 010 $a1-316-68654-X 010 $a1-316-68573-X 010 $a1-316-45098-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000729510 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001682176 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16507499 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682176 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14916469 035 $a(PQKB)10906526 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316450987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4575415 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000729510 100 $a20150505d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEpicureans and atheists in France, 1650-1729 /$fAlan Charles Kors$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016). 311 $a1-107-13264-9 311 $a1-107-58492-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReading Epicurus -- The Epicureans -- At the boundaries of unbelief -- Historians, atheists, and historical atheists. 330 $aAtheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved real voice and life. This book examines the Epicurean inheritance and explains what constituted actual atheistic thinking in early-modern France, distinguishing such categorical unbelief from other challenges to orthodox beliefs. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, protocols, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of atheism are inexplicable. This book brings to life both early-modern French Christian learned culture and the atheists who emerged from its intellectual vitality. 606 $aEpicureans (Greek philosophy) 606 $aAtheism$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aAtheism$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y17th century 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 0$aEpicureans (Greek philosophy) 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 615 0$aAtheism$xHistory 676 $a194 700 $aKors$b Alan Charles$0157644 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154672903321 996 $aEpicureans and atheists in France, 1650-1729$92581457 997 $aUNINA