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The Invention of Free Press

Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book Series (volume 219)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7346-1

ISBN: 978-94-017-7345-4

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Mar 9, 2016

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Chapter 1Was Control of the Press Inevitable?

Tortarolo, Edoardo

Pages: 1 –20

[In the middle of the seventeenth century, a few years apart, the two pre-eminent political philosophers in Europe worked out opposing theories of the proper course of action for political power-holders in their dealings with the written word. Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza held contrasting...
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Chapter 2The English Paradigm

Tortarolo, Edoardo

Pages: 21 –49

[The act of Parliament of 1643 that incensed Milton and the radicals and inspired the reformulation of arguments in favour of freedom of the press, also reinforced the alliance between the Anglican Church, the Stationers’ Company and the Long Parliament. An act of 1649 forbade printing outside of...
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Chapter 3The Functional Ambiguity of Censorship and the French Enlightenment

Tortarolo, Edoardo

Pages: 51 –98

[In 1769, the French translation of a major investigation of the Ottoman Empire was printed in Paris with the place of publication falsely given as London. The following year, Observations on the Religion, Law, Government and Manners of the Turks by the English ambassador in Istanbul, James...
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Chapter 4The Royal Censors as Guarantors of Freedom of the Press

Tortarolo, Edoardo

Pages: 99 –133

[The royal censors bore most of the responsibility for the functioning of the French control system. They had to carry out essential operations on a daily basis: reading carefully, making suggestions for rewriting texts, and granting (when possible) permission to publish. The participants in the...
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Chapter 5Equivocations and New Meanings

Tortarolo, Edoardo

Pages: 135 –163

[The abbé Gabriel-François Coyer was an outstanding and unconventional figure in the Enlightenment debate on politics and economics in the second half of the eighteenth century. In 1756 he published a vigorous appeal to the nobility to take the lead in the modernization of French society by...

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