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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Translation -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A New History of the Beginnings of the German Enlightenment -- 1 The Familiar Story -- 2 The Early Enlightenment in Halle -- 3 Other Centers, Other Origins -- 4 Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment -- Chapter 1 The Mortal Soul: Biblicism, Materialism, and the New Science -- 1 Mortalist Traditions and the English Debate -- 2 An Academic Accident -- 3 Conditions and Contingencies -- 4 Unorthodox Medical Students in Wittenberg: Bucher, Burghart, Hölmann -- 5 Innovations Surrounding Tschirnhaus and at the Electoral Saxon Court -- 6 Discussion with Roeschel and Publication -- 7 False Trails -- 8 Bucher's Physiology of the Soul -- 9 The Wittenberg Style -- 10 Melanchthon and the Soul -- 11 The Problem of Body and Soul: A Collision with Halle's Teachings on the Moral Temperaments -- 12 Publicity and Marketing -- 13 Reactions to the Correspondence -- 14 The Late Bucher: Definitions of God with Vanini and Simoni -- 15 The Treatise, De natura mentis et spiritus -- 16 Secularization? -- Chapter 2 Nature and Idolatry: The Ambivalence of the Natural from Henry Stubbe to Christian Gabriel Fischer -- 1 The Activity of Nature -- 2 Henry Stubbe and the Odor of Sanctity -- 3 Stubbe and Boyle -- 4 The Battle over Nature -- 5 Andreas Rüdiger and the Egyptians -- 6 Christian Gabriel Fischer and Wolffianism -- 7 The Four Fundamental Motifs -- 8 Distancing Spinoza -- 9 Conclusion: Between the Radical and Conservative Enlightenments -- Chapter 3 The Doctrine of Temperaments, Medicine, and the Problem of Atheism -- 1 The ''German Bayle'' as a Reader of La Mothe le Vayer -- 2 Friendship and Conflict -- 3 The Critique of Bayle and the Recognition of National Character. 4 Gundling and the Doctrine of Temperaments -- 5 Hippocrates an Atheist? -- 6 The Argument -- 7 Innate Heat in Hippocrates -- 8 The Connection with Natural Law -- 9 Opposition to Gundling -- 10 Subsequent Incomprehension -- Chapter 4 Natural Law, Religion, and Moral Skepticism -- 1 ''Modern'' Natural Law -- 2 Grotius and Skepticism -- 3 Dissatisfaction with Grotius -- 4 The Law of Noah and the Early History of Mankind -- 5 De diis Syris and Oriental Studies in Leipzig -- 6 Johann Christoph Becmann between Natural Law and the Talmud -- 7 The Young Johann Franz Budde -- 8 Juridical Skepticism: Georg Michael Heber -- 9 The Critique of Grotius by Gassendi and Hobbes -- 10 The Critique of Grotius in the Symbolum sapientiae -- 11 Budde Strikes Back: Dissertatio de scepticismo morali -- 12 Heinrich von Cocceji, Budde, and the Will of God -- 13 The End of lex divina positiva universalis -- 14 The End of the Pythagoras Narrative -- Chapter 5 From Becmann to Stosch: The Socinian Contexts of the Concordia rationis et fidei (1692) -- 1 The Concordia rationis et fidei -- 2 A New Document -- 3 A Fluid Situation -- 4 Jean Le Clerc's Pseudonymous Epistolae theologicae -- 5 The Socinians, Stosch, and Spener's Sermons of 1691-1693 -- 6 Samuel Crell and the Court Preachers of Brandenburg -- 7 Bartholomäus Stosch and Socinianism -- 8 The Search for Bergius's Autograph Manuscript -- 9 Friedrich Wilhelm Stosch and His Contacts -- 10 Professor Becmann's Lecture -- 11 Becmann's Literary Round Table -- 12 Michael Servetus's De Christianismi restitutio in Frankfurt on the Oder -- 13 Stosch's Concordia rationis et fidei -- 14 A Short Summary of a Complex Situation -- Chapter 6 The Founders of Religion as Human Beings: Moses and Jesus between Inflation and Deflation -- 1 Inflating and Deflating Moses -- 2 Omniscient Moses: An All-Knowing Hero?. 3 The Influence of the Libertine Tradition and the Abyss of Accommodation Theory -- 4 Power Politics and Deceptive Knowledge: The Uses of Hellenistic Literature Opposed to Moses -- 5 Destruction or Reorganization? Moses in the ''Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns'' -- 6 Mohammed -- 7 A ''Natural'' Jesus -- 8 A Clandestine Manuscript -- 9 The Professor and His Collector -- 10 The Circle Around Hardt -- 11 Löscher's Review of De Josepho -- 12 Early Circulation -- 13 The Road to the Enlightenment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek -- Berlin, Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz -- Danzig, Technische Universität -- Dessau, Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt -- Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek -- Dresden, Sächsisches Landeshauptarchiv -- Dresden, Stadtarchiv -- Erfurt, Universitätsbibliothek -- Göttingen, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek -- Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek -- Hildesheim, Stadtarchiv -- Karlsruhe, Landesbibliothek -- Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine -- Rome, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana -- Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek -- Wolfenbüttel -- Wroclaw, Universitätsbibliothek -- Zurich, Zentralbibliothek -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
A vivid account of the diverse intellectual landscape of the German Enlightenment, exploring radical writing between 1680 and 1720.