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1 online resource (xv, 432 pages) ; illustrations |
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Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
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Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books.
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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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Introduction: What Is a Clandestine Philosophical Manuscript? / Gianni Paganini Part One: Clandestinity, the Renaissance, and Early Modern Philosophy: 1. Why, and to What End, Should Historians of Philosophy Study Early Modern Clandestine Texts? . Winfried Schrder; 2. The First Philosophical Atheistic Treatise: Theophrastys 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 Christopher Dybvad; 4. "Qui toujours servent d'instruction": Socinian Manuscripts in the Dutch Republic; 5. "The political theory of libertines": Manuscripts and Heterdox Movements in the Early-Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic |
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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) / Karen Hollewand Part Four: Clandestinity and the Enlightenment: 8. The Style and Form of Heterodoxy: John Toland's Nazarenus and Pantheisticon / Whitney Mannies; 9. Philosphical Clanestine Literature and Academic Circles in France / Susana Seguin; 10. Jospeh as the Natural father of Christ: An Unknown, Clandestine Manuscript of the Early Eighteenth Century / Martin Muslow; 11. Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts in the Catalogue of Marc-Michel Rey / Antony McKenna and Fabienne Vial-Bonacci Part Five: Toleration, Criticism, and Innovation in Religion: 12. The Treatise of the Three Imposters, Islam, the Enlightenment, and Toleration / John Marshall; 13. The Polyvalence of Heterodox Sources and Eighteenth-Century Religious Change / Jeffrey D. Burson 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 /John Christian Laursen; Afterword /John Christian Laursen; |
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Philosophy (General)
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Underground literature -- Europe -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Underground literature -- Europe -- Manuscripts -- Congresses.
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Philosophy, Modern -- History -- Congresses.
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Manuscripts, European -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
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Manuscripts, European -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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Manuscripts, European -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Littérature clandestine -- Europe -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès.
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Littérature clandestine -- Europe -- Manuscrits -- Congrès.
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Manuscrits européens -- Histoire -- 17e siècle -- Congrès.
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Manuscrits européens -- Histoire -- 18e siècle -- Congrès.
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Manuscrits européens -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Congrès.
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PHILOSOPHY / General
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Manuscripts, European
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Philosophy, Modern
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Underground literature
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Europe https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxCxPbbk4CPJDQJb4r6rq
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1600-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Paganini, Gianni, 1950- editor.
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Jacob, Margaret C., 1943- editor.
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Laursen, John Christian, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781487504618 |
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1487504616 |
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9781487531560 (online) |
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1487531567 |
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9781487530549 (electronic bk.) |
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1487530544 (electronic bk.) |
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