ISBN:
9789401587358
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIX, 532 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 148
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 148
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Humanities
;
Religion (General)
;
Philosophy, modern
;
Romance languages
;
History
;
Philosophy—History.
;
Religion.
Abstract:
The Traité des Trois Imposteurs, ou l'Esprit de M. Spinosa is a most notorious clandestine work that was circulating throughout Europe in the 18th Century. The work is a pastiche of passages from Hobbes, Naudé, La Mothe Le Vayer, Spinoza and others, contending that Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were imposters who set up their religions for political reasons. In 1990 a research seminar on the origins, nature, meaning and dispersion of the text was held under the direction of Richard H. Popkin, with the assistance of Silvia Berti and Françoise Charles-Daubert, sponsored by the Foundation for Research in Intellectual History. Advanced students and young professors carried out research projects. Lectures were given by the staff plus visiting scholars including Miguel Benitez and Bertram Schwarzbach. This volume contains the results of the seminar, including papers by the teachers and students. It breaks much new ground about the Traité, including new data about its possible origins and development, the dispersion of manuscripts of it, and its role in anti-religious Enlightenment thought
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-015-8735-8
URL:
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