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La Lettre clandestine
2021, n° 29 L’Imposture et la littérature philosophique clandestine

  • Publication type: Journal
  • Editor: Seguin (Maria Susana)
  • Number of pages: 570
  • Parution: 06-09-2021
  • Journal: The Clandestine Letter
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Pages 7 to 11
Contents
Pages 13 to 18
Editorial
McKenna (Antony)

DOSSIER / DOSSIER

L’IMPOSTURE ET LA LITTÉRATURE
PHILOSOPHIQUE CLANDESTINE /
IMPOSTURE AND CLANDESTINE
PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE

Pages 21 to 24
Introduction
Seguin (Maria Susana)
Pages 25 to 42
The skeptical sweetness of imposture, from Montaigne to La Mothe Le Vayer
Giocanti (Sylvia)
Pages 43 to 83
Imposture and libertine dissimulation, or illusion and levels of expression of the truth in the Theophrastus redivivus
Gengoux (Nicole)
Pages 85 to 143
In search of the new Theophrastus Guy Patin redivivus
Mori (Gianluca)
Pages 145 to 173
Unmasking the impostor with Molière The dramaturgy of imposture and the anthropology of belief
Rosellini (Michèle)
Pages 175 to 193
Fanaticism or imposture? On some controversial figures in the Dictionnaire historique et critique
Moreau-Vittard (Isabelle)
Pages 195 to 213
Feminine superstition in the Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe
Zorrilla (Natalia)
Pages 215 to 227
Religious imposture in the Difficultés of Robert Challe
Artigas-Menant (Geneviève)
Pages 229 to 251
A conspiracy of priests? Imposture and fanaticism in the Mémoire of Jean Meslier
Tizziani (Manuel)
Pages 253 to 283
Mysterium iniquitatis Theological-political criticism and social criticism in Meslier
Toto (Francesco)
Pages 285 to 288
Conclusion The three Impostures
Moreau (Pierre-François)

VARIA

Pages 291 to 307
The contagion of atheism and libertinism (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)
Cavaillé (Jean-Pierre)
Pages 309 to 372
On the author of the Réflexions morales et métaphysiques From “Delaube” to Camille Falconet
McKenna (Antony), Mori (Gianluca)
Pages 373 to 388
An update on the Traité de l’infini créé by Abbé Jean Terrasson
Del Prete (Antonella)
Pages 389 to 406
A new handwritten copy of Voltaire’s letter Sur l’ame
Benítez (Miguel), Le Brun-Ricalens (Foni)
Pages 407 to 462
The missing link in d’Holbach’s bibliography The list by Naigeon “le jeune”
Boussuge (Emmanuel), Mothu (Alain)

COMPTES RENDUS / REVIEWS

Pages 465 to 488
Reviews

HOMMAGES / TRIBUTES

Pages 491 to 498
Tributes
Pages 499 to 545
Bibliographical bulletin
Pages 547 to 558
Index of names
Pages 559 to 570
Abstracts
La Lettre clandestine publishes research on the clandestine philosophical manuscripts of the 17th and 18th centuries which provided the Enlightenment philosophers with much of their critical culture.
  • CLIL theme: 3129 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie -- Philosophie moderne
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-11883-1
  • EAN: 9782406118831
  • ISSN: 1242-3912
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11884-8
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 06-09-2021
  • Periodicity: Annual
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Literature, philosophy, history, underground, Old regime, Classic age, Enlightenment

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