Atheist's Bible

Atheist's Bible

The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

Weiss, Lys Ann; Minois, Georges

The University of Chicago Press

10/2022

264

Mole

Inglês

9780226821061

15 a 20 dias

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Translator's Note
Preface to the English-Language Edition (2011)
Preface (2009)
1. The Origin of a Mythical Theme: The Prehistory of the Three Impostors (Up to the Thirteenth Century)
The First to Be Accused: Frederick II and Pierre des Vignes (1239)
The Precursors of Imposture: Zalmoxis and Numa Pompilius
Celsus: Moses the Impostor
Celsus and the Talmud: Jesus the Impostor
Mahomet the Impostor in Christian Literature (Ninth to Twelfth Century)
Politico-Religious Imposture in the Middle Ages
The Arabic Origins of the Theme of the Three Impostors (Tenth Century)
The First Mention in Christianity (Twelfth Century)

2. The Hunt for the Author of a Mythical Treatise (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century)
A Culture of Imposture
The Rumors of the Late Middle Ages
The Renaissance: A Receptive Context for the Idea of Imposture
Moses the Machiavellian
Appeals to the Holy Union of Religions
Italy and the Specter of the Three Impostors
The Obsession Spreads
Geneva, Birthplace of the Three Impostors?
Three Impostors or Three Prophets? (Guillaume Postel)
Who Actually Saw the Treatise?

3. The European Elites and Religious Imposture (Seventeenth Century)
On the Trail of De tribus around the Baltic Sea
Holland and England: Heterodox Contexts
The French Trail: Learned Libertines and Religious Imposture

4. Debates on the Origin of Religions (Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)
Hobbes and Spinoza
Holland and the Birth of the Radical Enlightenment
Rumors of the De tribus in England

5. From the De tribus to the Trois imposteurs: Discovery or Invention of the Treatise? (1680-1721)
Sources of the De tribus: Kiel, 1688
The Intervention of Leibniz and of Baron von Hohendorf
The De tribus: A German Affair
Preliminary Polemic: Does the Trois imposteurs Exist? (1715-1716)
The Reference Edition: The Hague, 1719
The Birth of L'Esprit de Spinoza and of the Trois imposteurs (1700-1721)
A Franco-Dutch Commercial Imposture?
Erroneous Attributions: Henri de Boulainvillier (1658-1722) and John Toland (1670-1722)

6. The Treatise of the Three Impostors: The Contents of a Blasphemy
The De tribus: A Slapdash Work?
The Atheism of the Traite
The End of Religions
The Soul and Demons: Subtle Chimeras
Moses the Impostor: Magic and Persecution
Jesus the Impostor: A Merchant of Absurd Dreams
Mahomet the Impostor: The Senses and the Sword

Epilogue: The Three Impostors in the Antireligious Literature of the Eighteenth
CenturyAppendixes
Notes
Glossary
Index of Names
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