Clandestine Philosophy: New Studies on Subversive Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823 - Hardcoverby Gianni Paganini (Editor), Margaret C. Jacob (Editor), John Christian Laursen (Editor) Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be