Book launch: Anticlerical Legacies: The Deistic Reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740 (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Elad Carmel
How did Hobbesian ideas develop into the eighteenth century? What was the role of anticlericalism in early modern political thought? And are these legacies long since forgotten?
We invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Anticlerical Legacies, a new book by Dr Elad Carmel (Jyväskylä, previously Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th-Century Scottish Studies at IASH).
This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes’s ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a new account of the afterlife of Hobbes’s theory and of the political thought of those who followed his radical anticlericalism.
Commentators: Prof James Harris (St Andrews), Dr Valerie Wallace (St Andrews, previously Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th-Century Scottish Studies at IASH)
The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
Register for free from Friday 12 January on Eventbrite.
