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Clandestine Philosophy

New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvGianni Paganini,Margaret C. Jacob,J.C. Laursen

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Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture.After Ira Wade’s pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political and religious thought, and moral and sexual behaviour are addressed by contemporary authors working in both America and Europe. These manuscripts shed light on the birth of pornography and provide an important avenue for investigating philosophical, religious, political, and social critique.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-02-11
Mått160 x 231 x 36 mm
Vikt740 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieUCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Antal sidor448
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487504618

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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