About the book: 1978 / The book examines the life path and writings of the outstanding French materialist philosopher of the 18th century. Paul Holbach. The author introduces Holbach’s philosophical views, which gave him fame as a systematizer of French materialism in the 18th century, the philosopher’s militant atheistic heritage, his socio-political and ethical teachings. The appendix provides an excerpt from Holbach’s “Social System” for the first time in Russian.