Clandestine Philosophy

Preface
Introduction: 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 Europe

3. Danish Clandestina from the Early Seventeenth Century: Two Secret Manuscripts and the Destiny of the Mathematician
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 1820–3 and the Clandestine Philosophical Literature
15. The fortuna of a Clandestine Manuscript: An 1822 Spanish Translation of the Examen critique of 1733