The use of censorship in the Enlightenment / / edited by Mogens Lrke.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 175
• TeilnehmendeR: Lrke, Mogens, 1971-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 175.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at the international conference "The use of censorship from the Age of Reason to the Enlightenment," Copenhagen, May 12-13, 2006.
• Other title: 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 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.
• ISBN: 128240119X; 9786612401190; 9047429028
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mogens Lrke.

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.