Free thoughts on religion, the Church & national happiness
By: Bernard Mandeville ; Irwin Primer, editor.
Contributors: Primer, Irwin.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Theology.; Political science.
Description: "This new edition of Free Thoughts is prefaced by a lengthy and informative introduction by Irwin Primer, who recreates not only the literary, political, and religious atmosphere surrounding Mandeville, but also the controversies that surrounded his writing in mid-eighteenth-century England. Primer includes textual notes on the first and second editions of this classic work.

To understand Mandeville's Free Thoughts, one needs to situate it within the context of the religious and political controversies, ongoing subversion, fear and dormant warfare of his times. Those would eventually erupt again and for the last time in the bloody Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229) and indexes.