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How could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors of early eighteenth-century Europe. Born at the Burg Frankenstein in the South of Germany, he was a truly cosmopolitan figure, straying between France, Berlin, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and various German states. From 1714–1719, he was in Altona near Hamburg, then the second city of Denmark-Norway. Here, a labyrinthine case was brought against him, terminating with his banishment to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This book is the first to investigate in detail the Case Against Dippel in Altona, pitting him in a struggle against the strongest noble couple of Denmark-Norway, the Reventlows, presiding in Altona. It was a case involving libel, bribes, corruption, but also branching into blasphemy and gold-making. The investigation of the Case Against Dippel is embedded in a narrative of what is known about his frantic life and defiant thought before and after his seven-years’ incarceration. The whole story throws a new light upon the challenging question of the origin of Modernity and the clandestine connections between radical pietism and radical Enlightenment.

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L’œuvre monumentale de Jonathan Israel a suscité l'intérêt des historiens et des philosophes, mais également des experts en sciences politiques. On peut affirmer sans exagérer que ses travaux constituent une lecture incontournable pour tous ceux qui travaillent actuellement sur les Lumières, soit pour étayer ses thèses, soit pour les critiquer, mais toujours dans le cadre du dialogue avec ses propositions. Or, si l'ensemble de son œuvre a suscité tant d'intérêt de la part des experts les plus divers, pourquoi entreprendre un nouveau travail sur ses hypothèses ? La raison essentielle qui nous incite à réaliser ce projet est notre conviction que ses thèses politiques ont été quelque peu négligées. Pourtant, alors que les spécialistes ont commenté surtout les aspects religieux et philosophique de son projet, Israel soutient qu'elle comporte en outre une dimension politique incontournable, puisque les institutions démocratiques, les théories républicaines et les révolutions mêmes du XVIIIe siècle trouvent leurs racines dans cette idéologie radicale. En effet, pour les philosophes radicaux, le combat contre l'erreur et l'ignorance allait de pair avec la lutte contre la corruption institutionnelle et politique qui touchait particulièrement la religion.

Mouvement des Lumières --- Historiographie --- Israël, Jonathan Irvine, --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Israel, Jonathan --- anno 1700-1799 --- Enlightenment --- Philosophy, Modern --- Political science --- Siècle des Lumières --- Philosophie moderne --- Philosophie --- Science politique --- History --- Histoire --- Israel, Jonathan I. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Siècle des Lumières --- Israel, Jonathan Irvine --- Mouvement des Lumières. --- Historiographie. --- Enlightenment - Europe --- Philosophy, Modern - 17th century --- Philosophy, Modern - 18th century --- Political science - Europe - History - 17th century --- Political science - Europe - History - 18th century --- Israel, Jonathan I. - (Jonathan Irvine), - 1946- - Radical enlightenment --- Europe - Intellectual life - 17th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century