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Clandestine literature

DOI
10.4324/9780415249126-DA014-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DA014-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/clandestine-literature/v-1

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Clandestine philosophical (anti-Christian) literature of the seventeenth century circulated in manuscript form until its publication by the philosophes in the later eighteenth century. Since research began, the list of texts has grown and now includes some 260 titles which cover the classical heritage of the Renaissance, the works of La Peyrère and Cyrano, the influence of Spinoza, the growth of rationalism which accompanied the splintering of Protestant churches and sects, and the development of the deist debate in Britain.

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McKenna, Antony. Clandestine literature, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DA014-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/clandestine-literature/v-1.
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