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Collection of French Academic Articles detailing the significance & Influence of Epicurean Philosophy in the Enlightenment

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    • April 13, 2020 at 11:05 PM
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    https://www.persee.fr/issue/dhs_0070-6760_2003_num_35_1

    https://www.persee.fr/doc/dhs_0070-6760_2003_num_35_1_2587 (English synopsis of each article)

    Eighteenth Century, n° 35, 2003. The Epicureanism of the Enlightenment, under the direction of Anne Deneys-Tunney and Pierre-François Moreau.

    I. Special issue: The Epicureanism of the Enlightenment

    - Presentation. New faces of Epicureanism
    Pierre-François Moreau & Anne Deneys-Tunney

    - Sources -

    - The Philologies of Epicureanism
    Emmanual Bury

    - Epicurus and the atom system in the Critical History of Philosophy
    Henry Deneys

    - Sciences -

    - Of a "discreet" Epicureanism. For a Lucretian reading of the Interviews on the plurality of worlds by Fontenelle
    Christophe Martin

    - The Atomism in Philosophical Thoughts. Diderot between Gassendi and Buffon

    Garhardt Stenger


    - Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy, Volney: Human Science and Epicureanism
    Mariana Saad

    - Morals -

    - Between moral Epicureanism and aesthetic judgment: the critical variations of Saint-Evremond on the expression of passions in the theater
    Jean-Charles Darmon

    - Epicureanism according to Shaftesbury: febrifuge and imposture
    Françoise Badelon

    - Arouet, Epicurean poet. The voices of Epicureanism in youth poetry by Voltaire
    Nicholas Cronk

    - La Mettrie: an ethics of inconstancy, a metaphysics of tenderness
    Francine Markovits

    - Writings -

    - Epicurean reminiscences in the wanderings of the heart and spirit of Crébillon
    Jean Salem

    - Marivaux and the thought of pleasure (References La Mettrie and Epicurus)
    Anne Deneys-Tunney

    - Violent Models and Sensations in the Genesis of Sade's work
    Caroline Warman

    - Casanova as Epicurus' Pupil
    Branko Aleksic

    - Annex: The Ethics of Epicurus, taken from his own writings by Abbot Charles Batteaux (Branko Aleksic's extension of Batteux's "La morale d'Épicure tirée de ses propres écrits"

    - Epicurean practice and theory: the case of the obscene novel
    Jean Mainil

    - Controversies -

    - Materialism and Epicureanism in England at the beginning of the 18th century
    Ann Thomson (Who also translated a number of La Mettrie's works)

    - The abolition of the Garden: the status of the philosopher as a hidden man in the Treaty of the three impostors. The Questioning of an Epicurean Tradition.
    Abraham Anderson

    - Anti-Epicureanism (Recall La Mettrie's System d' Epicure: "I call upon you modern anti-epicureans!")
    Syviane Albertan-Coppola

    “If the joys found in nature are crimes, then man’s pleasure and happiness is to be criminal.”

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    • April 14, 2020 at 6:30 PM
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    That is an excellent collection of links Charles - thank you!

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