Naturalism and unbelief in France, 1650-1729 / / Alan Charles Kors [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Kors Alan Charles
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 211/.8094409032
• Soggetto topico: Naturalism - History - 17th century; Naturalism - History - 18th century; Atheism - France - History - 17th century; Atheism - France - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: France Religion 17th century; France Religion 18th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: From nature to God -- Reading the ancients and reading Spinoza -- Reductio Ad Naturalismum -- The passion of Malebranche -- Creation and evil.
• Sommario/riassunto: Atheism 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Naturalism & Unbelief in France, 1650-1729
• Titolo autorizzato: Naturalism and unbelief in France, 1650-1729
• ISBN: 1-316-68328-1; 1-316-68490-3; 1-316-68517-9; 1-316-68544-6; 1-316-68652-3; 1-316-68571-3; 1-316-68625-6; 1-316-22712-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136864703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II