A Prudent Rebel by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (.ePUB)
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A Prudent Rebel: The Secret & Subversive Writings of Fontenelle by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Kirk Watson (Translator)
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Overview: Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle (1657-1757) is considered one of the greatest popularizers of science and a herald of the French Enlightenment. While enjoying success as an author and leading officer in the French Academy of Sciences, he secretly promulgated a radical, critical philosophy questioning morality, politics, the immortality of the soul, revealed religion, and more. These ideas were disseminated in a body of anonymously circulating satires, treatises, and a utopian novel. He even gave public speeches on Christianity with ironic implications, one of which has been called one of “the boldest and most philosophical documents ever written in this country”.
Fontenelle was appreciated by his contemporaries as “one of the greatest philosophers on earth” (Vauvenargues), “the most universal mind of the century” (Voltaire), and the source of “the philosophical spirit” of the Age of Enlightenment (F. Grimm).
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics & Social Sciences › Politics & Government
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