Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.

Edited by Gianni Paganini, Margaret C. Jacob, and John Christian Laursen

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