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According to Wikipedia, Alan Charles Kors is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching. Kors graduated A.B. summa cum laude at Princeton University in 1964, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in European history at Harvard University.

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At the Origins of Modern Atheism. (1989) (185)
Atheism in France, 1650-1729. Volume 1, The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief. (1990) (155)
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 (review) (2002) (104)
The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America's Campuses (1998) (81)
D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris (1976) (55)
Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History (1972) (52)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2003) (32)
Atheism in France, 1650-1729 (1990) (23)
Prophets and Patrons: The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences. By Clark Terry Nichols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973. Pp. 282. $12.00.) (1977) (18)
Atheism in France, 1650-1729: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief (1993) (16)
The Atheism of d'Holbach and Naigeon (1992) (16)
Monsters and the Problem of Naturalism in French Thought (1997) (13)
Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729 (2016) (10)
Anticipations of the Enlightenment in England, France and Germany (1987) (9)
Harassment policies in the university (1991) (7)
Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729 (2016) (6)
The Enlightenment and its Critics (1997) (6)
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition (2000) (5)
The Myth of the Coterie Holbachique (1976) (4)
Skepticism and the problem of atheism in early-modern France (1993) (4)
CAN THERE BE AN “AFTER SOCIALISM”? (2002) (4)
THE PARADOX OF JOHN STUART MILL (2011) (3)
Thought reform and education: A view from the University of Pennsylvania (1988) (3)
Atheism in France, 1650-1729. Volume I: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief. (1992) (3)
The Age of Enlightenment (2013) (2)
The realm of government, the realm of ethics (1997) (2)
The French Context of Hume's Philosophical Theology (2011) (1)
The politicization of extracurricular life (1990) (1)
Book Review:Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics Keith Michael Baker (1976) (1)
Where is history? (2004) (1)
Triumph without self-belief (2001) (1)
7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France (1990) (1)
MIND, BODY, AND SOUL: IDEAS IN CONTEXT (2010) (1)
D'Holbach's Coterie (2015) (1)
An Uneasy Relationship: Atheism and Scepticism in the Late French Enlightenment (2013) (1)
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Great Contest (1990) (0)
Truth v. liberty: A confusion of priorities (1999) (0)
Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2021) (0)
Introduction. Intellectual History and the History of Atheism (1990) (0)
The Age of Faith to the Age of Reason (1997) (0)
At the Boundaries of Unbelief (2016) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Thinking about the Unthinkable (1990) (0)
A last word (1999) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Before Belief: Philosophy and Preamble (1990) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. The Ancients (1990) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. The History of Philosophy (1990) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Atheists without Atheism (1990) (0)
Creation and Evil (2016) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. The Assault on Proofs from the Sensible World (1990) (0)
Reading the Ancients and Reading Spinoza (2016) (0)
The Future of History in an Increasingly Unified World (2019) (0)
From Nature to God (2016) (0)
Early Deism in France. C. J. Betts (1986) (0)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Malebranche; the Firestorm; the Toll (1990) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Atheism without Atheists (1990) (0)
The Passion of Malebranche (2016) (0)
Reductio ad Naturalismum (2016) (0)
PART II. The Members of the Coterie Holbachique and the Society of the Ancien Régime (2015) (0)
The contradiction inherent in “social responsibility” (1999) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Other Peoples (1990) (0)
Book Review:The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century. Jeffrey W. Merrick (1992) (0)
Notes on the contributors (1963) (0)
Historians’ Atheists and Historical Atheists (2016) (0)
Calumny, Culture, Continuity, and Control (2012) (0)
History of the Idea of Progress.Robert Nisbet (1982) (0)
Life on Campus Really Ain't So Bad (2000) (0)
On liberty and learning (1991) (0)
PART I. The Coterie Holbachique and the Enlightenment (2015) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. The Assault on Cartesian Proofs of God (1990) (0)
PART III. The Members of the Coterie Holbachique and the French Revolution (2015) (0)
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (2021) (0)

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D'Holbach's Coterie : An Enlightenment in Paris

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