%0 Journal Article %T Materialismo e hist¨®ria: o caso do Bar o d¡¯Holbach %A Maria das Gra£¿as de Souza %J DoisPontos %D 2011 %I Universidade Federal do Paran¨¢, Universidade Federal de S?o Carlos %X We aim, in the first place, to examine at what extent Holbach's materialistic monism, as presented in his System of nature(1770), allows us to formulate an original conception of history, so that we can, secondly, ascertain whether this conception of the general course of human events could be identified in his Natural history of superstition. %K Materialism %K History %K Enlightenment %K Freedom %K Superstition %K Holbach %U http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/doispontos/article/view/28120/18681