Enlightenment underground: radical Germany, 1680-1720
In: Studies in early modern German history
Introduction: Radicalism as a problem for research -- The ambivalence of scholars: A Jewish Anti-Christian manuscript and its path into the German early Enlightenment -- To Socinian enlightenment: Sameul Crell's European networks -- Atheism at the heart of orthodoxy? On the origin and early spread of Johann Joachim Müller's De tribus impostoribus (1688) -- Political theology: Reason of state, historical pyrrhonism, and the critique of religion -- The destruction of Christian Platonism: Souverain's Le Platonisme dévoilé (1700) and Gundling's "Plato atheos" (1713) -- Gundling versus Budde: Skeptical versus Conservative enlightenment -- Eclecticism and indifferentism: The hidden discourse of the Religio Prudentum from the Ineptus religiosus of 1652 to the Religio Eclectica of 1702.