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Author:   Jonathan Israel (Professor of Modern History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 6.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.589kg
ISBN:  

9780199548200

ISBN 10:   019954820
Pages:   1088
Publication Date:   11 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; PART 1: THE RADICAL CHALLENGE; 2. Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition; 3. The Encyclopedie Suppressed (1752-60); 4. Rousseau against the Philosophes; 5. Voltaire, Enlightenment and the European Courts; 6. Anti-Philosophes; 7. Central Europe: Aufklarung divided; PART II: RATIONALIZING THE ANCIEN REGIME; 8. Hume, Scepticism, and Moderation; 9. Scottish Enlightenment and Man's Progress; 10. Enlightened Despotism; 11. Aufklarung and the Fracturing of German Protestant Culture; 12. Catholic Enlightenment: the Papacy's Retreat; 13. Society and the Rise of the Italian revolutionary Enlightenment; 14. Spain and the Challenge of Reform; PART III: EUROPE AND THE RE-MAKING OF THE WORLD; 15. The Histoire Philosophique, or Colonialism Overturned; 16. The American Revolution; 17. Europe and the Amerindians; 18. Philosophy and Revolt in Ibero-America (1765-92); 19. Commercial Despotism: Dutch Colonialism in Asia; 20. China, Japan, and the West; 21. India and the Two Enlightenments; 22. Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs; PART IV: SPINOZA CONTROVERSIES IN THE LATER ENLIGHTENMENT; 23. Rousseau, Spinoza and the 'General Will'; 24. Radical Break-Through; 25. The Pantheismusstreit (1780-87); 26. Kant and the Radical Challenge; 27. Goethe, Schiller and the new Dutch Revolt against Spain ; PART V: REVOLUTION; 28. 1788-9: the General Revolution begins; 29. The Diffusion; 30. 'Philosophy' as the Maker of Revolutions; 31. Aufklarung and the Secret Societies (1776-92); 32. Small State Revolution in the 1780s; 33. The Dutch Democratic Revolution of the 1780s; 34. The French Revolution: from 'Philosophy' to Basic Human Rights (1788-90); 35. Epilogue: 1789 as an Intellectual Revolution

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Israel has turned up evidence of the Radical Enlightenment's influence in surprising places, and that labor alone should ensure that this book finds a place on every specialist's shelf. New York Times Book Review a brave and ambitious historian...Israel has found a way of dramatising the debates and attitudes which eventually lay the foundations for something we can call modernity. BBC History Magazine

Israel has turned up evidence of the Radical Enlightenment's influence in surprising places, and that labor alone should ensure that this book finds a place on every specialist's shelf. New York Times Book Review a brave and ambitious historian...Israel has found a way of dramatising the debates and attitudes which eventually lay the foundations for something we can call modernity. BBC History Magazine Taken either singly or as part of a trilogy, Democratic Enlightenment is a remarkable achievement, and deservedly places Israel among the finest intellectual historians of our day. Times Literary Supplement

a brave and ambitious historian...Israel has found a way of dramatising the debates and attitudes which eventually lay the foundations for something we can call modernity. BBC History Magazine

<br> A magisterial study of the immediate and middle-range intellectual underpinnings of the French and subsequent democratic revolutions...this trilogy is by far the most comprehensive and best study of the late 18th-century attitudinal changes that shaped modern thought and action...No serious work equals it in span...or depth...this is an essential book for all who are studying the Enlightenment. -- Library Journal<br><p><br>

Author Information

Jonathan Israel is Professor of Modern History at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and corresponding fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. His previous books include The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750, and Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752.

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