Clandestine Philosophy

Gianni Paganini is Professor in the Dipartimento Studi Umanistici at Università del Piemonte Orientale.Margaret C. Jacob is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.John Christian Laursen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.

• PrefaceIntroduction: What is a Philosophical Clandestine 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 Europe3. Danish Clandestina from the Early Seventeenth Century: Two Secret Manuscripts and the Destiny of the Mathematician4. "Qui toujours servent d’instruction": Socinian Manuscripts in the Dutch Republic5. "The political theory of the libertines": Manuscripts and Heterodox Movements in the Early Eighteenth Century Dutch RepublicPart Three: Gender, Sexuality, and New Morals6. The Science of Sex: Passions and Desires in Dutch Clandestine Circles, 1670–17207. Expert of the Obscene: The Sexual Manuscripts of Dutch Scholar Hadriaan Beverland (1650–1716)Part Four: Clandestinity and the Enlightenment8. The Style and Form of Heterodoxy: John Toland’s Nazarenus and Pantheisticon9. Philosophical Clandestine Literature and Academic Circles in France10. Joseph as the Natural Father of Christ: An Unknown, Clandestine Manuscript of the Early Eighteenth Century11. Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts in the Catalogue of Marc Michel ReyPart Five: Toleration, Criticism, and Innovation in Religion12. The Treatise of the Three Impostors, Islam, the Enlightenment, and Toleration13. The Polyvalence of Heterodox Sources and Eighteenth-Century Religious ChangePart Six: Spanish Developments14. The Spanish Revolution of 1820–3 and the Clandestine Philosophical Literature15. The fortuna of a Clandestine Manuscript: An 1822 Spanish Translation of the Examen critique of 1733