Atheism in Britain
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Atheism in Britain
Thoemmes Press
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Description
Until the 19th century, atheism was widely thought to be not just false but impossible or crazy. By the early-20th century, however, all that had changed. Indeed, according to some of our most influential "culture-heroes", such as Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, it is religion that is pathological and it is aetheism that distinguishes our culture from that of the past. Many major texts are little-known, such as "An Answer to Priestley" (1782). Similiarly, "An Investigation of the Essence of the Deity" (1789) is rare. Spanning the 18th and 19th centuries, this collection includes central works by militant and avowed such atheists as Charles Bradlaugh, as well as crypto- and unvowed aetheists such as Anthony Collins.
Table of Contents
Volume 1: "An Answer to Mr Clark's Letter to Mr Dodwell", Anthony Collins (1708) 94pp, and "Tetradymus", John Toland (1720) 226pp. Volume 2: "A Philosophical Dissertation upon Death", Matthew Turner and William Hammon (1732) 94pp, and "An Answer to Dr Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever", Scepticus Britannicus (1782) 95pp, and "An Investigation of the Essence of the Deity" (1797) 46pp. Volume 3: "The Necessity of Atheism" (1811) 13pp, "A Refutation of Deism" (1814) 106pp, Percy B. Shelley, and "Janus on Sion", George Ensor (1816) 139pp, and "To Mr R. Carlile, Dorchester Gaol' on the word 'nature'", John Stuart Mill, "The Republican", Jan 3rd (1823) pp.25-6. Volume 4: "An Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion" Jeremy Bentham and George Grote (1822) 140pp, and "Paley Refuted in his own Words", George Holyoake (1843) 39pp, and "An Apology for Atheism", Charles Southwell (1846) 48pp. Volume 5: "On the Nature and Existence of God", Annie Besant (1877) 36pp, and "A Plea for Atheism" (1883) 24pp, "Doubts in Dialogue" (1891) 109pp, Charles Bradlaugh, and "Flowers of Freethought", George W. Foote (1893) 213pp.
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