Elad Carmel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Jyvskyl and previously a Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th-Century Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
'A careful examination of Hobbes’s influence on early debates about Deism, the place of reason in religion, and the place of religion in society' J. H. Spence, Adrian College, CHOICE Reviews '[An] important and fluently crafted study' History of European Ideas 'Carmel’s valuable study contributes to the enriching of our understanding of the intellectual traditions which fostered the radical ideas of the Enlightenment in England.' Intellectual History Review 'In tracing out the Hobbesian roots of [Anthony] Collins’s manifesto, and the deist program on which it drew, Anticlerical Legacies succeeds magnificently. We are left with a greater appreciation of both Hobbes – whose profound and continuing legacy continued to unsettle public discourse well into the next century – and the deists for whom he served as such a powerful role model.' Andrew R. Murphy, Hobbes Studies -- .