This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others. -- . Publisher: Manchester University Press Author(s): Elad Carmel Number of pages: 248 Collection: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 19 Cover type: Hardback