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 A History of Atheism in Britain
From Hobbes to Russell
Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in Britain – there were covert atheists in the middle seventeenth century. By tracing its development from so early a date, Dr Berman gives an account of an important and fascinating strand of intellectual history.

A History of Atheism in Britain From Hobbes to Russell 1st Table of contents:

 1 The Repression of Atheism
I Doubts and denials of atheism
II Self-fulfilling denials
III The crucial clash: Balguy and Curteis
IV Thomas Wise’s ‘mixt atheism’: a key to repression
V Indirect and inadvertent denials: Bentley and Cudworth
VI Freud and the crucial clash
VII An atheist doubts his atheism
VIII Linguistic analogues and Schopenhauer’s explanation
IX Herbert and Fotherby
X The 1697 Act for repressing atheism
XI Repression and suppression
XII Conclusion
Notes
2 Restoration Atheists Foundling Followers of Hobbes
I Acts against atheism
II Robertson and Bentley
III Informers of atheism
IV Lord Rochester, apostate atheist
V Hobbes’s denial of atheism and Scargill’s confession of atheism
VI The atheistic exploitation of the anti-Hobbes literature
VII Hobbes’s atheism
Notes
3 Anthony Collins’s Atheology
I The deist interpretation
II Collins’s atheism: the external evidence
III Difficulties in identifying atheism
IV The existence of atheists: opposing tendencies
V The atheistic argument from the eternity of matter
VI Second approach to Collins’s atheism: his ‘vindication’ of the divine attributes and Christian prophecies
Notes
4 The Suppression of ‘Atheism’
I Count Radicati
II Charles Gildon
III Blackmore and Berkeley
IV Hume’s atheism
V Concluding remarks
Notes
5 The Birth of Avowed Atheism 1782–1797
I The first declaration
II Hammon and Turner
III The Answer’s atheism
IV Watson refuted
V Metaphysical atheism
VI Atheism against deism
Notes
6 Shelley’s Deicide
I The fourth act
II Denials of Shelley’s atheism
III Shelley and the repressive tendency
IV Shelley’s system
Notes
7 The Struggle of Theoretical Atheism over Practical Atheism
I Atheism and the theoretical/practical distinction
II The orthodox position: Locke and Berkeley
III Prevalence of the orthodox position
IV The anti-orthodox position: Bayle and Shaftesbury
V Variations and transitions in the early eighteenth century
VI Hume’s anti-orthodoxy
VII Late eighteenth-century compromises and vacillation
Notes
8 The Causes of Atheism
I The triumph of theoretical over practical atheism: the Answer
II The birth of Shelley’s atheism
III Hogg’s role in the birth of atheism
Notes
9 The Atheists 1822–1842
I The Analysis
II Grote’s atheism
III Richard Carlile
IV Southwell and Holyoake
Notes
10 Militant and Academic Atheism
I Holyoake and Bradlaugh
II The thorough atheist
III G.E. Moore
IV McTaggart
V Russell
Notes
The Ethics of Unbelief
Notes
Index

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