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The use of censorship in the Enlightenment /

The use of censorship in the Enlightenment / edited by Mogens Lærke. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2009 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 175. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339. .

Papers presented at the international conference "The use of censorship from the Age of Reason to the Enlightenment," Copenhagen, May 12-13, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.

Preliminary Material / Introduction / Suppress Or Refute? Reactions To Spinoza In Germany Around 1700 / Pierre Bayle And Censorship / French Royal Censorship And The Battle To Suppress The Encyclopédie Of Diderot And D’Alembert, 1751-1759 / Between Lies And Real Books: The Breakdown Of Censorship And The Modes Of Printed Discourse During The English Civil War / Censorship Of Philosophy In The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic / Diderot And The Publicizing Of Censorship / Toland And The Censorship Of Atheism / G.W. Leibniz: Moderation And Censorship / Bibliography / Index / Mogens Lærke -- Mogens Lærke -- Manfred Walther -- Hubert Bost -- Jonathan Israel -- Tue Andersen Nexø -- Wiep Van Bunge -- Colas Duflo -- Tristan Dagron -- Mogens Lærke -- Mogens Lærke -- Mogens Lærke.

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The ambition is of this volume to study the role censorship played in the intellectual culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how it was implemented, and how it affected the development philosophy and literary writing. It contains contributions by intellectual historians, philosophers and literary theorists. The first section studies how Enlightenment thinkers were submitted to censorship, in particular the German Spinozists, Pierre Bayle, and the French Encylopedists. The second section on the institutional aspects of censorship contains an analysis of the breakdown of censorship in England around 1640 and a discussion of the impact of censorship on philosophy in the Netherlands. The final section studies the stand three Enlightenment thinkers, namely John Toland, Denis Diderot, and G. W. Leibniz, took on the issue of censorship.

9789047429029

10.1163/ej.9789004175587.i-206 DOI

2009007793

20179682 bccb


Censorship--History--Europe--17th century--Congresses.
Censorship--History--Europe--18th century--Congresses.
Enlightenment--Europe--Congresses.
Literature, Modern--History--17th century--Congresses.
Literature, Modern--History--18th century--Congresses.
Philosophy, Modern--History--17th century--Congresses.
Philosophy, Modern--History--18th century--Congresses.


Europe--Intellectual life--17th century--Congresses.
Europe--Intellectual life--18th century--Congresses.

Z658.E85 / U84 2009

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