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Scudery, de, Madeleine --- Women and literature -- France -- History -- 17th century --- French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism --- France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century

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Pourquoi se souvenir de Claude-Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) ? Il n'a pas laissé d'oeuvre à proprement parler et son renom d'antiquaire, sa fidélité à la Provence et son catholicisme ne lui valurent pas l'estime des hommes des Lumières, ses successeurs. De lui ne nous restent qu'une correspondance démesurée et une renommée qui fut immense en Europe, dans ce qu'on appelait alors la République des Lettres. Pourtant, apprendre qui fut Peiresc, c'est découvrir le plus grand humaniste français, c'est observer sur le vif la construction, entre Renaissance et Modernité, d'un espace européen des idées, du savoir et des arts. Au coeur de l'Europe savante, Peiresc s'intéresse au Nord comme au Sud, à la topographie de la lune autant qu'aux camées et aux pierres, aux langues orientales comme au breton, aux traces présumées de géants comme à l'apprivoisement des chats persans ou à l'observation des caméléons. Astronome réputé, mais aussi archéologue, égyptologue, botaniste, zoologue, ami de Galilée et de Rubens, il correspondit depuis Aix-en-Provence avec toute l'Europe, conseilla le roi de France et le pape, reçut, discuta et diffusa les théories, les connaissances et les arts, et défendit l'idée qu'aucun savoir, qu'il concerne la nature ou l'histoire, n'était inutile ou superflu. Première biographie contemporaine d'un prince européen du savoir, le grand livre de Peter N. Miller est indispensable à qui veut découvrir la culture scientifique et historique de la France du XVIIe siècle.

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Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling of the religious literature of the early-modern learned world, this book reveals that the "great fratricide" among bitterly competing schools of Aristotelian, Cartesian, and Malebranchist Christian thought encouraged theologians to refute each other's proofs of God and to depict the ideas of their theological opponents as atheistic. Such "fratricide" was not new in the history of Christendom, but Kors demonstrates that its influence was dramatically amplified by the expanding literacy of the seventeenth century. Capturing the attention of the reading public, theological debate provided intellectual grounds for the disbelief of the first generation of atheistic thinkers.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Descartes, René, --- France --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Influence --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, René --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Influence. --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650 - Influence --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650 --- France - Intellectual life - 17th century --- Cartésianisme --- Appréciation --- Critique et interprétation --- Cartésianisme --- Appréciation --- Critique et interprétation