Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History

Contents\nIllustrations\nPreface\nIntroduction: Precarious Knowledge, Dangerous Transfers, and the Materiality of Knowing\nPart I Tactics of the Intellectual Precariat\nSection I The Radical Persona\nIntroduction\n1 The Clandestine Precariat\n2 The Libertine’s Two Bodies\n3 Portrait of the Freethinker as a Young Man\n4 The Art of Deflation, or: How to Save an Atheist\n5 A Library of Burned Books\nSection II Trust, Mistrust, Courage: Epistemic Perceptions, Virtues, and Gestures\nIntroduction\n6 Threatened Knowledge: Prolegomena to a Cultural History of Truth\n7 Harpocratism: Gestures of Retreat\n8 Dare to Know: Epistemic Virtue in Historical Perspective\nPart II Fragility and Engagement in the Knowledge Bourgeoisie\nSection III Problematic Transfers\nIntroduction\n9 A Table in One’s Hand: Historical Iconography\n10 Family Secrets: Precarious Transfers within Intimate Circles\n11 The Lost Package: The Role of Communications in the History of Philosophy in Germany\nSection IV Communities of Fascination and the Information History of Scholarly Knowledge\nIntroduction\n12 Protection of Knowledge and Knowledge of Protection: Defensive Magic, Antiquarianism, and Magical Objects\n13 Mobility and Surveillance: The Information History of Numismatics and Journeys to the East under Louis XIV\n14 Microscripts of the Orient: Navigating Scholarly Knowledge from Notebooks to Books\nConcluding Word\nIndex