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Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow confines of atheism into the much broader domain of post-theological thinking. Christopher Watkin argues that Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux each elaborate a distinctive approach to the post-theological, but that each approach still struggles to do justice to the death of God.

Religious studies --- Meillassoux, Quentin --- Nancy, Jean-Luc --- Badiou, Alain --- Atheism --- Philosophy, French --- Philosophy --- Agnosticism --- Free thought --- Irreligion --- Religion --- Secularism --- Theism --- Meillassoux, Quentin, --- Nancy, Jean-Luc. --- Badiou, A. --- Badiu, Alen, --- Badiou, Alan, --- Bādiyū, Ālān, --- Бадиу, Ален, --- باديو, آلان, --- באדיו, אלן, --- アラン・バディウ, --- 巴迪欧, 阿兰,

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An investigation into the influence of, and reaction to, the atheistic writings of the baron d'Holbach. The Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writings against religion. His prolific campaign of atheism and anti-clericalism, waged from the printing presses of Amsterdam in the yearsaround 1770, was so radical that it provoked an unprecedented public response. For the baron's enemies, at least, it suggested the end of an era: proof that the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were simply a cabal of atheists hell-bent on the destruction of all that was to be cherished about religion and society. The philosophes, past their prime and under fire, recognised the need to respond, but struggled to know which way to turn. France's institutional bodies, lacking unity and fatally distracted, provided no credible lead. Instead, the voice of reason came from an unlikely source - independent Christian apologists, Catholic and Protestant, who attacked the baron on his own terms and, in the process, irrevocably changed the nature of Christian writing. This book examines the reception of the works of the baron d'Holbach throughout francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant "Christian Enlightenment" and raises questions about existing secular models of the francophone public sphere.

Comparative religion --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Athéisme --- Mouvement des Lumières --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich, --- Histoire et critique --- 141.45 --- 211.4 --- Atheïsme --- Antigodsdienstige stellingen --- Atheism --- Atheism and literature --- Enlightenment --- Philosophy, French --- History --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 211.4 Antigodsdienstige stellingen --- 141.45 Atheïsme --- Philosophy --- Agnosticism --- Free thought --- Irreligion --- Religion --- Secularism --- Theism --- Literature and atheism --- Literature --- D'Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, --- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiery, --- Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich, --- Thiry, Paul Henri, --- Thiery, Paul Henri, --- Thierry, Paul Henri, --- Dietrich, Paul Henri, --- Thyry, Paul Henri, --- Holbach, Paul Thiry, --- Holbach, --- D'Holbach, --- M. D***, --- D***, --- Ancien magistrat, --- Bernier, --- Olbach, --- Orbach, --- Halbach, --- Holbah, Pol, --- Golʹbakh, Polʹ, --- Holbakh, Pol, --- von Holbach, Paul Heinrich Dietrich --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich --- Histoire et critique. --- Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich baron d' --- Baron d'Holbach. --- Catholic. --- Christian apologists. --- Enlightenment rationalism. --- French Enlightenment. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Protestant. --- Voltaire. --- anti-clericalism. --- atheistic writings. --- cabal. --- francophone Europe. --- religion. --- religious writing.