M. Bergier - Le Déisme réfuté par lui-même - 1771

A compelling, tightly knit body of this polemical treatise that situates itself within the context of the Enlightenment and the philosophical and religious debates of the eighteenth century, where the author, a Catholic theologian and apologist, undertakes to demonstrate that deism, by claiming to be founded on reason alone and by rejecting revelation, destroys itself by its own contradictions.

Bergier vigorously exposes the arguments of the deists, then turns them against them, showing that their conception of a distant and inaccessible God, devoid of worship and mediation, leads to practical atheism and the collapse of moral and social foundations -

Set against a climate of tension between philosophy and religion, the book embodies the intellectual resistance of Catholicism in the face of the Enlightenment and remains today a significant milestone in the history of the controversies over deism and religious thought of the 18th century -

M. Bergier - Deism Refuted by Itself - 1771 - Humblot - 2 volumes in 1 -
286 and 260 pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original period marbled calfskin, signs of wear, missing lower cap, corners and hinges worn (small tears at the ends), red edges, spine with ornate raised bands, gilt lettering -

Good internal condition, rare foxing, pretty headbands, handwritten annotations on the title page, marbled endpapers, complete, two parts in one volume -

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