Arthur M. Melzer is professor of political science at Michigan State University, where he is also cofounder and codirector of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.
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Philosophical esotericsim—the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts 'between the lines'—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopédie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this pra... SEE MORE