Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief by Joshi, S. T.

Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616148416)

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Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief by Joshi, S. T.

Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief

$20.95
Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief by Joshi, S. T.

Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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This is the first anthology ever published to feature the writings of leading eighteenth-century thinkers on the subjects of atheism, religion, freethought, and secularism. Editor S. T. Joshi has compiled notable essays by writers from France, England, and early America. The contributors include Denis Diderot (a principal author of the multivolume French Encyclopédie), Baron d'Holbach (System of Nature, 1770), Voltaire (Philosophical Dictionary), David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, and other lesser-known thinkers. With a comprehensive introduction providing the intellectual and cultural context of the essays, this outstanding compilation will be of interest to students of philosophy, religious studies, and eighteenth-century intellectual history.

Author: S. T. Joshi
ISBN-10: 1616148411
ISBN-13: 9781616148416
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.31w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 116
By S. T. Joshi
By S. T. Joshi
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S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer, a scholar, and an editor. He is the author of The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism, and he is the editor of Atheism: A Reader; The Agnostic Reader; God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong; H. L. Mencken on Religion; Documents of American Prejudice; In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice against Women; and What Is Man? And Other Irreverent Essays. He is also editor of the American Rationalist.

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