Author: Nathan Curland
Nathan Curland is vice president of the Humanists of Minnesota and editor of the group’s newsletter.
Correcting the Record
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment, by Philipp Blom (New York: Basic Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-465-01453-8) 361 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Though Philipp Blom’s newest book is classed as philosophical history, A Wicked Company addresses issues that resonate with the rationalist and humanist movements of today. This engrossing work is about the …
Voltaire’s Study of Religion
God and Human Beings, by Voltaire; first English translation by Michael Shreve, Introduction by S.T. Joshi (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-61614-178-3) 183 pp. Paper, $18. God and Human Beings is a little-known work by Voltaire (1694–1778). It was published late in his life, when he was seventy-five years old, and just recently translated …