TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Cavaillé, Jean-Pierre
TI  - The contagion of atheism and libertinism (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)
T2  - La Lettre clandestine 2021, n° 29. L’Imposture et la littérature philosophique clandestine
JO  - La Lettre clandestine (ISSN 2271-720X), 29, 2021
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11884-8.p.0291
SN  - 2271-720X
SP  - 291
EP  - 307
AB  - The medical understanding of contagion (linking contagious diseases and poisoning) provides a framework of intelligibility for the “new scourges” of the human mind, irreligion and libertinism, in the corpus of the literature of controversy from the early modern period. This article examines the process that led, by way of a radical reversal, to the understanding of religion itself and superstition as contagious diseases in the midst of the radical Enlightenment.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/09
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - atheism, libertinism, contagion, radical Enlightenment, disease
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/la-lettre-clandestine-2021-n-29-l-imposture-et-la-litterature-philosophique-clandestine-the-contagion-of-atheism-and-libertinism-sixteentheighteenth-centuries.html
Y2  - 2024/05/20
ER  -