Editing Epicureanism (section)

===Modern revival===
In the 17th century, the French Franciscan priest, scientist and philosopher [[Pierre Gassendi]] wrote two books forcefully reviving Epicureanism. Shortly thereafter, and clearly influenced by Gassendi, [[Walter Charleton]] published several works on Epicureanism in English. Attacks by Christians continued, most forcefully by the [[Cambridge Platonists]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambridge Platonists {{!}} Seventeenth-Century, Rationalism, Theology {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cambridge-Platonists |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

In modern times [[Thomas Jefferson]] referred to himself as an Epicurean:<blockquote>If I had time I would add to my little book the Greek, Latin and French texts, in columns side by side. And I wish I could subjoin a translation of Gassendi's Syntagma of the doctrines of Epicurus, which, notwithstanding the calumnies of the Stoics and caricatures of Cicero, is the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical extravagances of his rival sects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/writingsofthomas10jeffiala/writingsofthomas10jeffiala_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "The writings of Thomas Jefferson;"|website=archive.org|access-date=2016-05-06}}</ref></blockquote>Other modern-day Epicureans were [[Pierre Gassendi|Gassendi]], [[Walter Charleton]], [[François Bernier]], [[Charles de Saint-Évremond|Saint-Évremond]], [[Ninon de l'Enclos]], [[Denis Diderot]], [[Frances Wright]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]].

In France, where perfumer/restaurateur Gérald Ghislain refers to himself as an Epicurean,{{cn|date=November 2023}} [[Michel Onfray]] is developing a [[post-modern]] approach to Epicureanism.<ref>[[Michel Onfray]], ''La puissance d'exister: Manifeste hédoniste'', Grasset, 2006</ref> In his 2011 book titled ''[[The Swerve]]'', [[Stephen Greenblatt]] identified himself as strongly sympathetic to Epicureanism and Lucretius. [[Humanistic Judaism]] as a denomination also claims the Epicurean label.