Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fine, Jonathan Blake

Titel

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES: Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720

Ist Teil von

• Church History, 2017, Vol.86 (2), p.526

Ort / Verlag

Santa Rosa: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the second chapter, Mulsow considers a theologian originally from Poland, Samuel Crell, in an effort to clarify the complex interplay of Jewish, Socinian, and Arminian thinking that determined how radical texts from Holland and England resonated with German intellectuals.Mulsow then considers the critique of Christian Platonism through an analysis of works such as Matthieu Souverain's Le Platonisme dévoilé, which was anonymously published in Amsterdam in 1700, in spite of the title page's claim that the book can be traced to the fictitious publisher Pierre Marteau in Cologne.Mulsow views the tensions between these two philosophers as emblematic of the conflict between a liberal and conservative Enlightenment that is a crucial source of the friction that propelled the intellectual movement forward during the eighteenth century.