Anticlerical Legacies: The Deistic Reception of Thomas Hobbes, C. 1670-1740

This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.

Elad Carmel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä.