TY - EJOUR A1 - Boussuge, Emmanuel A1 - Mothu, Alain TI - Apologetics in a mirror - An ambiguous correspondence by Lévesque de Burigny (1763) T2 - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) 2021, n° 18. ­L’usage de la métaphysique chez les matérialistes des xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles JO - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) (ISSN 2649-1826), 18, 2021 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12209-8.p.0369 SN - 2649-1826 SP - 369 EP - 397 AB - Author, around 1730, of an Examen critique des apologistes de la religion chrétienne which enjoyed a good underground fortune, Jean Lévesque de Burigny (1692-1785) was, in the last third of the century, linked not only to Voltaire, but also to the most radical fraction of the « Enlightenment ». The very ironic answer he gave in 1763 to a naive provincial correspondent, who asked him how to defend Christianity, gives us some solid clues on this subject. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/06 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Lévesque de Burigny, baron d’Holbach, “Manufacture holbachique”, correspondence, dissimulation, apologetics, clandestine manuscripts, atheism LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/libertinage-et-philosophie-a-l-epoque-classique-xvie-xviiie-siecle-2021-n-18-l-usage-de-la-metaphysique-chez-les-materialistes-des-xvie-xviie-et-xviiie-siecles-apologetics-in-a-mirror.html Y2 - 2024/05/29 ER -