Clandestine Philosophy : New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe / Margaret C. Jacob, John Christian Laursen, Gianni Paganini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paganini, Gianni, author.

Contributor:

Jacob, Margaret C., editor.

Laursen, John Christian, editor.

Paganini, Gianni, 1950- editor.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Clandestine Philosophy examines the circulation and consequences of 'clandestine philosophical manuscripts', a genre that flourished in the eighteenth century and included forbidden works such as erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life and of the nobility, forbidden religious texts, and books about alchemy and the occult. The editors have brought together leading experts on the history of European philosophy to explore the circulation of radical ideas during the eighteenth century and the social, political, and cultural impact they had on eighteenth-century society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Is a Clandestine Philosophical Manuscript?

Part One: Clandestinity, the Renaissance, and Early Modern Philosophy

1 Why, and to What End, Should Historians of Philosophy Study Early Modern Clandestine Texts?

2 The First Philosophical Atheistic Treatise: Theophrastus redivivus (1659)

Part Two: Politics, Religion, and Clandestinity in Northern Europe

3 Danish Clandestina from the Early Seventeenth Century? Two Secret Manuscripts and the Destiny of the Mathematician Christoffer Dybvad

4 "Qui toujours servent d'instruction": Socinian Manuscripts in the Dutch Republic

5 "The political theory of the libertines": Manuscripts and Heterodox Movements in the Early-Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Part Three: Gender, Sexuality, and New Morals

6 The Science of Sex: Passions and Desires in Dutch Clandestine Circles, 1670-1720

7 Expert of the Obscene: The Sexual Manuscripts of Dutch Scholar Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716)

Part Four: Clandestinity and the Enlightenment

8 The Style and Form of Heterodoxy: John Toland's Nazarenus and Pantheisticon

9 Philosophical Clandestine Literature and Academic Circles in France

10 Joseph as the Natural Father of Christ: An Unknown, Clandestine Manuscript of the Early Eighteenth Century

11 Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts in the Catalogue of Marc-Michel Rey

PART FIVE TOLERATION, CRITICISM, AND INNOVATION IN RELIGION

12 The Treatise of the Three Impostors, Islam, the Enlightenment, and Toleration

13 The Polyvalence of Heterodox Sources and Eighteenth-Century Religious Change

Part Six: Spanish Developments

14 The Spanish Revolution of 1820-1823 and the Clandestine Philosophical Literature

15 A Clandestine Manuscript in the Vernacular: An 1822 Spanish Translation of the Examen critique of 1733

Afterword

Contributors

Index

THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3054-4

1-4875-3156-7

OCLC:

1409079588