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The internal relation between clandestine philosophical manuscripts and theological controversies in the period of the 'Crisis of the European Mind'

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14510563
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 仏語・仏文学
Research InstitutionChiba University

Principal Investigator

MITSUI Yoshitoshi  Chiba University, Faculty of Letters, professor, 文学部, 教授 (00157546)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
KeywordsTreatise of the Three Impostors / L'Esprit de Spinoza / clandestine philosophical manuscripts / Enlightenment / atheism / materialism / 反宗教的地下文書 / 啓蒙前期 / 啓蒙期地下文書 / 理神論 / スピノザ主義 / 亡命カルヴァン派 / 合理主義的キリスト教 / 啓蒙思想 / 地下文書 / 民衆啓蒙 / ヨーロッパ意識の危機 / ジャン・メリエ
Research Abstract

This study tries to address the question of the influence of Thomas Hobbes' materialism and John Toland's radial rationalism on the continental Radical Enlightenment. By exploring the resources of ‘The Treatise of the Three Impostors' (<Traite des trios imposteurs> or <L'Esprit de Spinoza>), one of the most important and circulated clandestine philosophical manuscripts the study shows that it consists of extracts not only from the works of Spinoza but also from Hobbes' ‘Leviathan'. One result of this reconstruction of ‘The Treatise' will be to suggest that we should reevaluate the impact of Hobbes on the continent : various copies of this clandestine manuscript were widely circulated in the Europe from the early 18^<th> century but little historical interest has been paid to his influence. The other influence is shown in the works of d'Holbach, a hidden great propagandist of the materialistic atheism. He translated and published Hobbes' 'The Human nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policy'. He also translated and paraphrased <Of Reason> in Toland's ‘Christianity Not Mysterious' in order to adapt his ideas of reason for use as the arms of atheism. Interestingly enough, Toland had adopted his ideas of reason from John Lock's ‘An Essay concerning Human Understanding' and elaborated a new concept of reason which was to supply a theoretical basis to the rational theology or the deism. It was necessary for a propagandist of the Radical Enlightenment to introduce and combine Toland's radical rationalism and Hobbes' materialism in the second half of the 18^<th> century.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2004 2003 2002 Other

All Journal Article (7 results) Publications (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] L'emergence du materialisme dans la premiere moitie du XVIIIe siecle en France --- une etude sur Jean Meslier2004

    • Author(s)
      Yoshitoshi Mitsui
    • Journal Title

      La Lettre Clandestine 12

      Pages: 450-451

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] L'emergence du materialisme dans la premiere moitie du XVIIIe siecle en France : une etude sur Jean Meslier2004

    • Author(s)
      Yoshitoshi Mitsui
    • Journal Title

      La Lettre Clandestine No.12

      Pages: 450-451

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] L'emergence du materialisme dans la premiere moitie du XVIIIe siecle en France... une etude sur Jean Meslier2004

    • Author(s)
      Yoshitoshi Mitsui
    • Journal Title

      La Lettre Clandestine 12

      Pages: 450-451

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 反乱への無限なる樹形--ジャン・メリエと二つの無限2003

    • Author(s)
      三井吉俊
    • Journal Title

      千葉大学『人文研究』 32

      Pages: 365-392

    • NAID

      40005815664

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Le monde infini en grand arbre centre Dieu : Jean Meslier et deux infinis2003

    • Author(s)
      Yoshitoshi Mitsui
    • Journal Title

      Jinbun Kenkyu(The journal of humanities) No.32

      Pages: 365-392

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 地下の水脈へ--ヨーロッパ意識の危機と地下文書2002

    • Author(s)
      三井吉俊
    • Journal Title

      思想 939

      Pages: 27-50

    • NAID

      110000459669

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Searching for the Underground Philosophical Vein of the Old Regime : The crisis of the European mind and clandestine Literature2002

    • Author(s)
      Yoshitoshi Mitsui
    • Journal Title

      Shiso(Thougut) No.939

      Pages: 27-50

    • NAID

      110000459669

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yoshitoshi MITSUI: "Searching for the Underground Philosophical Vein of the Old Regime : The crisis of the European mind and clandestine literature (resume)"La Lettre Clandestine. No 12-2003. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Yoshitoshi MITSUI: "Le monde infini en grand arbre contre Dieu : Jean Meslier et deux infinis (resume)"La Lettre Clandestine. No 12-2003. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Yoshitoshi MITSUI: "L'emergence du materialisme dans la premiere moitie du 18eme siecle en France : une etude sur Jean Meslier (resume)"La Lettre Clandestine. No 12-2003. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 三井吉俊: "地下の水脈へ-ヨーロッパ意識の危機と地下文書-"思想. 939. 27-50 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 三井吉俊: "反乱への無限なる樹形-ジャン・メリエと二つの無限"人文研究. 39. (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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