Atheist's Bible
Subtitle: Diderot's 'Éléments de Physiologie'
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2020
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781783748976
Subjects: Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century
Description: 'Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten': Denis Diderot's Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul.The Atheist's Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot's Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this.