After Ira Wade’s pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political and religious thought, and moral and sexual behaviour are addressed by contemporary authors working in both America and Europe. These manuscripts shed light on the birth of pornography and provide an important avenue for investigating philosophical, religious, political, and social critique.
Gianni Paganini is Professor in the Dipartimento Studi Umanistici at Università del Piemonte Orientale.
Margaret C. Jacob is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
John Christian Laursen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.