Immaterialism in the clandestine literature of the Age of Enlightenment

If research devoted to the clandestine literature of the seventeenth and ei ghteenth centuries is today enjoying considerable expansion int he scholarl y world, it tends, nonetheless, to be restricted to the materialist conside rations. However, other themes are open to exploration, such as the immater ialist one which is explicitly mentioned in two manuscripts (the Reflection s morales et metaphisiques sur les religions et sur les connoissances de l' homme and the Jordanus Brunus Redivivus). After presenting and analyzing th ese two texts, we argue that this clandestine account of immaterialism coul d explain both the evolution of this theory during the Enlightenment and th e misunderstanding of Berkeley's philosophy.