Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. New Histories of Atheism;
2. Unbelief and Atheism in Italy 1500-1700; 3. Pierre Charron's
`Scandalous Book'; 4. The `Christian Atheism' of Thomas Hobbes; 5.
The Charge of Atheism and the Language of Radical Speculation
1640-1660; 6. Jewish Anti-Christian Arguments as a Source of
Irreligion from the Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century; 7.
The First edition of the Traité des trois imposteurs and its
Debt to Spinoza's Ethics; 8. `Aikenhead the Atheist': The Context
and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the Late Seventeenth
Century; 9. Disclaimers as Offence Mechanicms in Charles Blount and
John Toland; 10.
The Atheism of d'Holbach and Naigeon; Index.
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