Alan Charles Kors
Biographic Data
| ID | 284593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Charles Kors |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Kors |
| SIGNATURE | KORS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unbelievers
In Ryrie's world, people do not believe because they are persuaded by arguments and reasons. They choose beliefs on an “emotional”—that is, arational—level and then adopt available arguments to supply their reasons. Intellectual historians seeking to solve the mystery of the death of God in our culture—as Ryrie's Nietzsche had understood the modern age—were operating from false epistemological and psychological premises. Metaphysicians, natural p…
Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729
Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicu…
Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729
Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729
Atheism was the most fundamental challenge to early-modern French certainties. Leading educators, theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as manifestly absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism. This book demonstrates that the Christian learned world had always contained the naturalistic 'atheist' as an interlocutor and a polemic…
Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I Vol. 1
Mind, Body, and Soul
Ann Thomson's Bodies of Thought is simultaneously an outgrowth of her prior work and a new direction in her scholarship. She has done rigorous and original study of the mid-eighteenth-century French materialist Julien Offray de La Mettrie, offering important critical editions and major articles. She also has done fruitful studies of broader issues of eighteenth-century medicine, vitalism, Epicureanism, and clandestine literature. These endeavors …
Where is history
Triumph without self-belief
Truth v. liberty
A last word
The contradiction inherent in “social responsibility”
The realm of government, the realm of ethics
Atheism in France, 1650-1729. Volume I
The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century . Jeffrey W. Merrick
On liberty and learning
T he idea that the university should act in loco parentis was one of the many traditional concepts of education abandoned during the campus upheavals of the late sixties and early seventies in favor of a laissez-faire attitude toward the personal conduct of students. Many colleges and universities with a sense of religious mission have steadfastly clung to such codes, while several secular institutions, motivated by growing concern about drugs an…
Harassment policies in the university
Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I
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…
The politicization of extracurricular life
Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany
At the Origins of Modern Atheism
Qeuvres philosophiques. Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Thought reform and education
Early Deism in France . C. J. Betts
History of the Idea of Progress.Robert Nisbet
Witchcraft in France and Switzerland
Mind, Body, and Soul
Ann Thomson's Bodies of Thought is simultaneously an outgrowth of her prior work and a new direction in her scholarship. She has done rigorous and original study of the mid-eighteenth-century French materialist Julien Offray de La Mettrie, offering important critical editions and major articles. She also has done fruitful studies of broader issues of eighteenth-century medicine, vitalism, Epicureanism, and clandestine literature. These endeavors …
Harassment policies in the university
The Myth of the Coterie Holbachique
In the tradition of Enlightenment studies, the coterie holbachiquea circle of philosophes, men of letters, and scientists meeting at the home of Baron Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century-often is described as constituting a kind of dark underworld beneath the respectable milieu of the Parisian salons. This is, in one ironic way, as it should be: for over a century and a half, we have been examining a forgery.…
Théologie et politique au siècle des lumières (1770-1820) . Bernard Plongeron
The Myth of the Coterie Holbachique
In the tradition of Enlightenment studies, the coterie holbachiquea circle of philosophes, men of letters, and scientists meeting at the home of Baron Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century-often is described as constituting a kind of dark underworld beneath the respectable milieu of the Parisian salons. This is, in one ironic way, as it should be: for over a century and a half, we have been examining a forgery.…
Condorcet
The Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Witchcraft in France and Switzerland
History of the Idea of Progress.Robert Nisbet
Early Deism in France . C. J. Betts
Thought reform and education
Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany
At the Origins of Modern Atheism
Qeuvres philosophiques. Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I
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…
The politicization of extracurricular life
On liberty and learning
T he idea that the university should act in loco parentis was one of the many traditional concepts of education abandoned during the campus upheavals of the late sixties and early seventies in favor of a laissez-faire attitude toward the personal conduct of students. Many colleges and universities with a sense of religious mission have steadfastly clung to such codes, while several secular institutions, motivated by growing concern about drugs an…
Harassment policies in the university
Atheism in France, 1650-1729. Volume I
The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century . Jeffrey W. Merrick
The realm of government, the realm of ethics
Truth v. liberty
A last word
The contradiction inherent in “social responsibility”
Triumph without self-belief
Where is history
Mind, Body, and Soul
Ann Thomson's Bodies of Thought is simultaneously an outgrowth of her prior work and a new direction in her scholarship. She has done rigorous and original study of the mid-eighteenth-century French materialist Julien Offray de La Mettrie, offering important critical editions and major articles. She also has done fruitful studies of broader issues of eighteenth-century medicine, vitalism, Epicureanism, and clandestine literature. These endeavors …
Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I Vol. 1
Philosophy (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Higher education (8 works) · Philosophy of education (8 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (6 works) · Atheism (5 works)