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Book SynopsisTrade Review'This excellent collection of essays revisits Epicureanism in its various associations with Enlightenment throughout Europe and as far as Russia.[…] part of the pleasure of the volume comes from the way it continually moves between examining local contexts and asking large questions.'
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French ReviewTable of ContentsNeven Leddy and Avi S. Lifschitz, Epicurus in the Enlightenment: an introduction
Elodie Argaud, Bayle’s defence of Epicurus: the use and abuse of Malebranche’s
Méditations chrétiennesHans W. Blom, The Epicurean motif in Dutch notions of sociability in the seventeenth century
Thomas Ahnert, Epicureanism and the transformation of natural law in the early German Enlightenment
Charles T. Wolfe, A happiness fit for organic bodies: La Mettrie’s medical Epicureanism
Natania Meeker, Sexing Epicurean materialism in Diderot
Pierre Force, Helvétius as an Epicurean political theorist
Andrew Kahn, Epicureanism in the Russian Enlightenment: Dmitrii Anichkov and atomic theory
Matthew Niblett, Man, morals and matter: Epicurus and materialist thought in England from John Toland to Joseph Priestley
James A. Harris, The Epicurean in Hume
Neven Leddy, Adam Smith’s critique of Enlightenment Epicureanism
Avi S. Lifschitz, The Enlightenment revival of the Epicurean history of language and civilisation
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