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Lucien Febvre's "The Problem of Unbelief in the 16th Century"
A Macat Analysis
Author: Macat, Lucien Febvre
Narrator: Macat.com
Unabridged: 1 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Macat
Published: 01/31/2018
Category: Literary Criticism - Subjects & Themes
Synopsis
What is the past – and what can we really know about it? This is the big question Febvre explores in this 1942 text. Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing ‘problem-based history,’ Febvre focuses on sixteenth-century French writer Francois Rabelais to answer one controversial question: Was Rabelais really one of France’s first atheists?Febvre conducted thorough research on Rabelais and the times he lived in to challenge this accepted view. He studied the mindsets of the day and concluded that Rabelais was not – indeed could not have been– a non-believer because it would have been impossible for a man to conceive of a world without God in that time and place.