The use of censorship in the Enlightenment / edited by Mogens Lrke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lrke, Mogens, 1971-

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 175.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 175

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Censorship--Europe--History--17th century--Congresses.

Censorship.

Censorship--Europe--History--18th century--Congresses.

Philosophy, Modern--History--17th century--Congresses.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, Modern--History--18th century--Congresses.

Literature, Modern--History--17th century--Congresses.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--History--18th century--Congresses.

Enlightenment--Europe--Congresses.

Enlightenment.

Europe--Intellectual life--17th century--Congresses.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ambition is of this volume to study the role censorship played in the intellectual culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how it was implemented, and how it affected the development philosophy and literary writing. It contains contributions by intellectual historians, philosophers and literary theorists. The first section studies how Enlightenment thinkers were submitted to censorship, in particular the German Spinozists, Pierre Bayle, and the French Encylopedists. The second section on the institutional aspects of censorship contains an analysis of the breakdown of censorship in England around 1640 and a discussion of the impact of censorship on philosophy in the Netherlands. The final section studies the stand three Enlightenment thinkers, namely John Toland, Denis Diderot, and G. W. Leibniz, took on the issue of censorship.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Mogens Lærke

Introduction / Mogens Lærke

Suppress Or Refute? Reactions To Spinoza In Germany Around 1700 / Manfred Walther

Pierre Bayle And Censorship / Hubert Bost

French Royal Censorship And The Battle To Suppress The Encyclopédie Of Diderot And D’Alembert, 1751-1759 / Jonathan Israel

Between Lies And Real Books: The Breakdown Of Censorship And The Modes Of Printed Discourse During The English Civil War / Tue Andersen Nexø

Censorship Of Philosophy In The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Wiep Van Bunge

Diderot And The Publicizing Of Censorship / Colas Duflo

Toland And The Censorship Of Atheism / Tristan Dagron

G.W. Leibniz: Moderation And Censorship / Mogens Lærke

Bibliography / Mogens Lærke

Index / Mogens Lærke.

Notes:

Papers presented at the international conference "The use of censorship from the Age of Reason to the Enlightenment," Copenhagen, May 12-13, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40119-X

9786612401190

90-474-2902-8

OCLC:

570375512

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004175587.i-206 DOI