Bodies of thought : science, religion, and the soul in the early Enlightenment / Ann Thomson.
By: Thomson, Ann
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: viii, 293 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780199236190 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Materialism -- History | EnlightenmentDDC classification: 128.09/033 LOC classification: B825 | .T53 2008Online resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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2010 is a reprint of the 2008 ed.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-281) and index.
'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.
Examining the development of a secular, purely material conception of human beings in the early Enlightenment, this book 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 18th‐century France, this book looks at attempts to explain how the material brain thinks without the need for an immaterial and immortal soul. It shows how this current of thinking fed into the later 18th‐century ‘Natural History of Man’, the earlier roots of which have generally been ignored. Although much attention has been paid to the atheistic French materialists, their link to the preceding period has been studied only partially, and the current interest in what is called the ‘Radical Enlightenment’ has helped to obscure rather than enlighten this history. By bringing out the importance of both Protestant theological debates and medical thinking in England, and by following the different debates on the soul in Holland and France, this book shows that attempts to find a single coherent strand of radical irreligious thought running through the early Enlightenment, coming to fruition in the second half of the 18th century, ignore the multiple currents which composed Enlightenment thinking.
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