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Bodies of thought : science, religion, and the soul in the early Enlightenment /

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Examining the development of a secular, purely material conception of human beings in the early Enlightenment, 'Bodies of Thought' provides a fresh perspective on the intellectual culture of this period and challenges influential interpretations of irreligious thought and the 'Radical...

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Main Author: Thomson, Ann
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Materialism > History.
Enlightenment.
Matérialisme > Histoire.
Siècle des Lumières.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Enlightenment
Materialism
Aufklärung
Materialismus
Seele
Materialism (filosofi) > historia.
Upplysningen.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 'The church in danger' : latitudinarians, Socinians, and Hobbists
  • Animal spirits and living fibres
  • Mortalists and materialists
  • Journalism, exile, and clandestinity
  • Mid-eighteenth-century materialism
  • Epilogue : some consequences.