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Der Atheismus in Enzyklopädien der Frühen Neuzeit

Zur Wissensgeschichte eines Phantoms (1560–1730)

Atheism in Encyclopaedias from Early Modernity

On a Phantom in the History of Knowledge (1560–1730)
In: Daphnis
Author:
Björn Spiekermann Sun-Yat-sen-Universität Guangzhou China

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Abstract

This article examines definitions and evaluations of as well as alternative terms for ‘atheism’ in encyclopedias of the early modern period. In a representative overview it will be shown that the early modern discourse about atheism must be interpreted in the light of the history of concepts, of ideas and of knowledge: Not only was the scope of the term ‘atheism’ much broader in the 16th and 17th centuries than it is today, but the sometimes highly ambitious attempts to classify the phenomenon of atheism according to the early modern orders of knowledge remained influential during the 18th and well into the 19th century.

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