The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

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. Contents ......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 10 Introduction (Mogens Lærke)......Page 12 Part One Censoring the Enlightenment......Page 34 Suppress or refute? Reactions to Spinoza in Germany around 1700 (Manfred Walther)......Page 36 Pierre Bayle and censorship (Hubert Bost)......Page 52 French royal censorship and the battle to suppress the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert, 1751-1759 (Jonathan Israel)......Page 72 Part Two Institutions and Practices of Censorship......Page 86 Between lies and real books: The breakdown of censorship and the modes of printed discourse during the English Civil War (Tue Andersen Nexø) ......Page 88 Censorship of philosophy in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic (Wiep van Bunge)......Page 106 Part Three Enlightenment Reflections on Censorship......Page 130 Diderot and the publicizing of censorship (Colas Duflo)......Page 132 Toland and the censorship of atheism (Tristan Dagron)......Page 148 G.W. Leibniz: Moderation and censorship (Mogens Lærke)......Page 166 Bibliography......Page 190 Index......Page 208 Intends 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. This title includes a section that studies how Enlightenment thinkers were submitted to censorship