Great Protector of Wits

Acknowledgements


List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors





Introduction


?Laura Nicoli





Part 1: Holbach: Philosopher and Philosophe


1 Holbach's Skepticism


?Alan Charles Kors





2 The Concept of Natural Order in the Systeme de la Nature


?Brunello Lotti





3 An Empire of Lies: Holbach on Vanity and Philosophy


?Enrico Galvagni





Part 2: Holbach: Strategist of the Enlightenment


4 Holbach traducteur, stratege et philosophe


?Mladen Kozul





5 The Role of Prophecies: Baron d'Holbach as a Translator of Anthony Collins


?Jacopo Agnesina





6 D'Holbach and the "Spirit of Judaism"


?Gianni Paganini





7 The Absent Guest: D'Holbach's Strategic Use of Voltaire's Texts


?Ruggero Sciuto





Part 3: Holbach: Encyclopediste


8 La critique religieuse du baron d'Holbach dans l'Encyclopedie?: une approche methodique


?Alain Sandrier





9 L'autre d'Holbach?: l'encyclopediste traducteur de chimie et d'histoire naturelle


?Melanie Ephreme





Part 4: Holbach and His Time


10 How Many Atheists at d'Holbach's Table?


?Emilio Mazza and Gianluca Mori





11 D'Holbach et Diderot?: une amitie plus que philosophique


?Paolo Quintili





12 Voltaire contre la coterie holbachique


?Gerhardt Stenger





13 D'Holbach, les cercles holbachiques et la circulation de la litterature philosophique clandestine


?Maria Susana Seguin





14 Who Are D'Holbach's Readers?


?Nicholas Cronk





Part 5: Holbach and Revolutionary Consciousnesses


15 D'Holbach's Political and Social Thought: The Democratic "Revolution" in Western Values Prior to 1789


?Jonathan Israel





16 D'Holbach's Legacy in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union


?Iryna Mykhailova





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• Filosofia
• História das idéias
• Ética e filosofia moral
• Agnosticismo e Ateismo