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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism--History.

Materialism.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 certain influential interpretations of irreligious thought and the 'Radical Enlightenment'.Beginning with the debate on the soul in England, in which political and religious concerns were intertwined, and ending with the eruption of materialism onto the public stage in mid-eighteenth-century France, Ann Thomson looks at attempts to explain how the material brain thinks without the

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. 'The Church in Danger': Latitudinarians, Socinians, and Hobbists; 3. Animal Spirits and Living Fibres; 4. Mortalists and Materialists; 5. Journalism, Exile, and Clandestinity; 6. Mid-Eighteenth-Century Materialism; 7. Epilogue: Some Consequences; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-281) and index.

ISBN:

9786611852771

0-19-155308-5

1-281-85277-5

OCLC:

427823394