Dr Laura Nicolì

Laura Nicolì is Research Associate at the Voltaire Foundation and former Research Fellow at the “Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura”.

In 2019-2020 she has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the Voltaire Foundation in association with the LabEx OBVIL at Sorbonne Université, after being Early Career Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen (2017-2019) and at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples (2016-2017). Her research focuses on eighteenth-century history of philosophy and history of ideas, especially French and Scottish philosophy of religion. Her book Les Philosophes et les Dieux. Le polythéisme en débat dans la France des Lumières was published in 2022 by Honoré Champion. She is currently working on the born-digital critical edition of Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach’s La Contagion sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la superstition (1768).

 

Selected publications

Books

Les Philosophes et les Dieux. Le polythéisme en débat dans la France des Lumières (1704-1770), Paris, Honoré Champion 2022.

(ed.), The Great Protector of Wits. Baron d’Holbach and His Time, Leiden, Brill 2022.

Articles

‘Filosofi scienziati e scienziati filosofi: il Seicento empirista nella Rivista di storia della filosofia (1946-1949), poi Rivista critica di storia della filosofia (1950-1983)’, Noctua. Rivista internazionale di storia della filosofia, 10 | 2023, pp. 619-656, https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaX16

‘Pensées (point trop) secrètes de Nicolas Fréret sur la religion’, La Lettre clandestine, 28 | 2020, pp. 107-118

‘Lugubre et riant, doux et intolérant : le paganisme vu par les Lumières’, ThéoRèmes, 9 | 2016, http://theoremes.revues.org/863

‘Fonti sottovalutate e fonti ignorate della voce Polythéisme dellʼEncyclopédie’, Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, 2 | 2013, pp. 371-392

Book chapters

‘“Aussi hardi… qu’aucun philosophe en France”. The Early French Reception of Hume’s Essays », in M. Skjonsberg and F. Waldmann (eds.), Hume’s Essays: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

‘“How shocking to a rational pagan”: tolleranza e intolleranza dei pagani nel dibattito settecentesco’, in P. Delpiano, M. Formica, A.M. Rao (eds.), Il Settecento e la religione, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura 2018, pp. 143-155

‘Sovrani, simboli, allegorie: interpretazioni del politeismo nel Settecento’, in C. Altini, Ph. Hoffmann, J. Rüpke (eds.), Issues of Interpretation. Texts, Images, Rites, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner 2018, pp. 155-166

‘Uomini, dèi, santi. La natura umana della divinità nellʼevemerismo settecentesco’, in C. Borghero, C. Buccolini (eds.), La ragione e le sue vie, Firenze, Le Lettere 2015, pp. 303-331

‘Linguaggio, scrittura e idolatria in Warburton e Pluche’, in C. Marras, A.L. Schino (eds.), Linguaggio, filosofia, fisiologia nellʼetà moderna, “Monografie digitali”, Iliesi-CNR 2015, pp. 259-270. http://www.iliesi.cnr.it/pubblicazioni/Ricerche-01-Marras_Schino.pdf

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