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The Great Protector of Wits

Baron d'Holbach and His Time

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-43578-0 (ISBN)

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A new assessment of baron d’Holbach (1723-1789), his works, his circle and his legacy, gathering together generations of d’Holbach scholars to analyse multiple aspects of his diverse intellectual commitment from fresh perspectives.

The Great Protector of Wits provides a new assessment of baron d’Holbach (1723–1789) and his circle. A challenging figure of the European Enlightenment, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach was not only a radically materialistic philosopher, a champion of anticlericalism, the author of the Système de la nature – known as ‘the Bible of atheists’ –, an idéologue, a popularizer of the natural sciences and a prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie, but he also played a crucial role as an organizer of intellectual networks and was a master of disseminating clandestine literature and a consummate strategist in authorial fictions. In this collective volume, for the first time, all these different threads of d’Holbach’s ‘philosophy in action’ are considered and analyzed in their interconnection.

Contributors to this volume: Jacopo Agnesina, Nicholas Cronk, Mélanie Éphrème, Enrico Galvagni, Jonathan Israel, Alan Charles Kors, Mladen Kozul, Brunello Lotti, Emilio Mazza, Gianluca Mori, Iryna Mykhailova, Gianni Paganini, Paolo Quintili, Alain Sandrier, Ruggero Sciuto, Maria Susana Seguin, and Gerhardt Stenger.

Laura Nicolì is Research Fellow at Fondazione 1563 (Turin) and Voltaire Foundation (Oxford). She holds a PhD in History of Philosophy from “La Sapienza” and EPHE. Her monograph, Les Philosophes et les dieux. Le polythéisme en débat dans la France des Lumières, is in press.

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Laura Nicolì

Part 1: Holbach: Philosopher and Philosophe

1 Holbach’s Skepticism

Alan Charles Kors

2 The Concept of Natural Order in the Système de la Nature

Brunello Lotti

3 An Empire of Lies: Holbach on Vanity and Philosophy

Enrico Galvagni

Part 2: Holbach: Strategist of the Enlightenment

4 Holbach traducteur, stratège et philosophe

Mladen Kozul

5 The Role of Prophecies: Baron d’Holbach as a Translator of Anthony Collins

Jacopo Agnesina

6 D’Holbach and the “Spirit of Judaism”

Gianni Paganini

7 The Absent Guest: D’Holbach’s Strategic Use of Voltaire’s Texts

Ruggero Sciuto

Part 3: Holbach: Encyclopédiste

8 La critique religieuse du baron d’Holbach dans l’Encyclopédie : une approche méthodique

Alain Sandrier

9 L’autre d’Holbach : l’encyclopédiste traducteur de chimie et d’histoire naturelle

Mélanie Éphrème

Part 4: Holbach and His Time

10 How Many Atheists at d’Holbach’s Table?

Emilio Mazza and Gianluca Mori

11 D’Holbach et Diderot : une amitié plus que philosophique

Paolo Quintili

12 Voltaire contre la coterie holbachique

Gerhardt Stenger

13 D’Holbach, les cercles holbachiques et la circulation de la littérature philosophique clandestine

Maria Susana Seguin

14 Who Are D’Holbach’s Readers?

Nicholas Cronk

Part 5: Holbach and Revolutionary Consciousnesses

15 D’Holbach’s Political and Social Thought: The Democratic “Revolution” in Western Values Prior to 1789

Jonathan Israel

16 D’Holbach’s Legacy in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Iryna Mykhailova

Index Nominum

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 339
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; französisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	725 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-43578-6 / 9004435786
ISBN-13	978-90-04-43578-0 / 9789004435780
Zustand	Neuware