Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat. By STEPHEN MILLER. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 219 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5481-3.

Stephen Miller's intention in this book is to look at 'three main currents of Enlightenment thought that are implicit in the deathbed projects of David Hume, Samuel Johnson, and Jean Paul Marat'--respectively representing, in Miller's words, 'reformist and moderately hostile to traditional religion; reformist yet strongly in favour of traditional religion; and transformist [...] and strongly hostile to traditional religion' (p. 9). Explicit in this 'project'...

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