{"product_id":"clandestine-philosophy-new-studies-on-subversive-manuscripts-in-early-modern-europe-1620-1823-hardback-9781487504618","title":"Clandestine Philosophy; New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823 (Hardback) 9781487504618","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eClandestine Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGianni Paganini (Edited by), Margaret C. Jacob (Edited by), J.C. Laursen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487504618\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16 x 3.6 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eClandestine 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter Ira Wade\u0026amp;#x2019;s pioneering contribution (1938), \u003ci\u003eClandestine Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: What is a Philosophical Clandestine Manuscript?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Clandestinity, the Renaissance, and Early Modern Philosophy \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Why, and to What End, Should Historians of Philosophy Study Early Modern Clandestine Texts?\u003cbr\u003e2. The First Philosophical Atheistic Treatise: Theophrastus redivivus (1659)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: Politics, Religion, and Clandestinity in Northern Europe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Danish Clandestina from the Early Seventeenth Century: Two Secret Manuscripts and the Destiny of the Mathematician\u003cbr\u003e4. \"Qui toujours servent d\u0026amp;#x2019;instruction\": Socinian Manuscripts in the Dutch Republic\u003cbr\u003e5. \"The political theory of the libertines\": Manuscripts and Heterodox Movements in the Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three: Gender, Sexuality, and New Morals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Science of Sex: Passions and Desires in Dutch Clandestine Circles, 1670–1720\u003cbr\u003e7. Expert of the Obscene: The Sexual Manuscripts of Dutch Scholar Hadriaan Beverland (1650–1716)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Four: Clandestinity and the Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Style and Form of Heterodoxy: John Toland\u0026amp;#x2019;s Nazarenus and Pantheisticon\u003cbr\u003e9. Philosophical Clandestine Literature and Academic Circles in France\u003cbr\u003e10. Joseph as the Natural Father of Christ: An Unknown, Clandestine Manuscript of the Early Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e11. Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts in the Catalogue of Marc Michel Rey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Five: Toleration, Criticism, and Innovation in Religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Treatise of the Three Impostors, Islam, the Enlightenment, and Toleration\u003cbr\u003e13. The Polyvalence of Heterodox Sources and Eighteenth-Century Religious Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Six: Spanish Developments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Spanish Revolution of 1820–3 and the Clandestine Philosophical Literature\u003cbr\u003e15. The fortuna of a Clandestine Manuscript: An 1822 Spanish Translation of the Examen critique of 1733\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595469189400,"sku":"9781487504618","price":56.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/clandestine-philosophy-new-studies-on-subversive-manuscripts-in-early-modern-europe-1620-1823-hardback-9781487504618","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}