Apologetics in a mirror An ambiguous correspondence by Lévesque de Burigny (1763)
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: 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 - Authors: Boussuge (Emmanuel), Mothu (Alain)
- Pages: 369 to 397
- Journal: Libertinism and Philosophy in the Classical Period (16th-18th Century)
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.
- CLIL theme: 3126 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie
- ISBN: 978-2-406-12209-8
- EAN: 9782406122098
- ISSN: 2649-1826
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12209-8.p.0369
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 10-06-2021
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French
- Keyword: Lévesque de Burigny, baron d’Holbach, “Manufacture holbachique”, correspondence, dissimulation, apologetics, clandestine manuscripts, atheism
