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Author: Jonathan Israel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 4.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.134kg
ISBN: 9780691169712
ISBN 10: 0691169713
Pages: 888
Publication Date: 22 September 2015
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Amazingly well-researched. . . . To describe it as a very, very worthy read, would be an understatement of colossal, consequentialist design. --David Marx Book Reviews A remarkable book. . . . An enormously rich and engaging work that invites us to think and to challenge received wisdom. --Mark Curran, European History Quarterly A racy account of the concepts that shaped the French Revolution and its people. . . . The book leaves the reader with a strong impression of the power of ideas that unlock political energy and the strength of leadership needed to withstand fickle popular opinion. --Tom Watson, New Statesman Israel, author of the pathbreaking studies on the Dutch Republic, European Jews, and more recently the radical Enlightenment, now turns his attention to the French Revolution, arguing that the underlying cause was ideological--namely, the impact of the radical Enlightenment resulting from the work of philosophers Denis Diderot, Claude Adrien Helvetius, and Paul-Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach. . . . Israel takes them at their word, painstakingly poring through voluminous revolutionary newspapers and the archives parlementaires, records of the revolutionary national assemblies. . . . This significant and nuanced study is a major reinterpretation. --Choice Israel, a professor of modern European history at Princeton, is a world authority on the 18th-century Enlightenment. Here he constructs a bold and brilliantly argued case that the 1789 French Revolution was propelled by the clash of innovative political doctrines that supported or contested Enlightenment values. --Tony Barber, Financial Times [M]ajestic. --Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Trinidad and Tobago News [P]acked with details . . . [Revolutionary Ideas] is part of Israel's major project to give the Enlightenment, especially the Radical Enlightenment as he calls it, new luster. --NRC Handelsblad Overwhelmingly impressive. --Peter Watson, Times [W]ith typical boldness Israel invites us to reconceptualise our very idea of the Revolution. --Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint [C]losely argued. . . . Israel can be understood as a historian in the long liberal tradition stretching back to Madame de Stael, who herself witnessed the revolution and saw it as a story of the betrayal of liberty. --Ruth Scurr, Wall Street Journal [A]dvances an erudite and persuasive argument. . . . Israel's categorization of the various revolutionary factions offers fascinating new insights, and his knack for uncovering interesting but neglected individuals and texts is second to none . . . rich and thought provoking book. It is remarkable and significant. --Rachel Hammersley, Times Literary Supplement Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers [A]dvances an erudite and persuasive argument... Israel's categorization of the various revolutionary factions offers fascinating new insights, and his knack for uncovering interesting but neglected individuals and texts is second to none ... rich and thought provoking book. It is remarkable and significant. --Rachel Hammersley, Times Literary Supplement [C]losely argued... Israel can be understood as a historian in the long liberal tradition stretching back to Madame de Stael, who herself witnessed the revolution and saw it as a story of the betrayal of liberty. --Ruth Scurr, Wall Street Journal [W]ith typical boldness Israel invites us to reconceptualise our very idea of the Revolution. --Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint Overwhelmingly impressive. --Peter Watson, Times [P]acked with details ... [Revolutionary Ideas] is part of Israel's major project to give the Enlightenment, especially the Radical Enlightenment as he calls it, new luster. --NRC Handelsblad [M]ajestic. --Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Trinidad and Tobago News Israel, a professor of modern European history at Princeton, is a world authority on the 18th-century Enlightenment. Here he constructs a bold and brilliantly argued case that the 1789 French Revolution was propelled by the clash of innovative political doctrines that supported or contested Enlightenment values. --Tony Barber, Financial Times Israel, author of the pathbreaking studies on the Dutch Republic, European Jews, and more recently the radical Enlightenment, now turns his attention to the French Revolution, arguing that the underlying cause was ideological--namely, the impact of the radical Enlightenment resulting from the work of philosophers Denis Diderot, Claude Adrien Helvetius, and Paul-Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach... Israel takes them at their word, painstakingly poring through voluminous revolutionary newspapers and the archives parlementaires, records of the revolutionary national assemblies... This significant and nuanced study is a major reinterpretation. --Choice A racy account of the concepts that shaped the French Revolution and its people... The book leaves the reader with a strong impression of the power of ideas that unlock political energy and the strength of leadership needed to withstand fickle popular opinion. --Tom Watson, New Statesman
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers [A]dvances an erudite and persuasive argument... Israel's categorization of the various revolutionary factions offers fascinating new insights, and his knack for uncovering interesting but neglected individuals and texts is second to none ... rich and thought provoking book. It is remarkable and significant. --Rachel Hammersley, Times Literary Supplement [C]losely argued... Israel can be understood as a historian in the long liberal tradition stretching back to Madame de Stael, who herself witnessed the revolution and saw it as a story of the betrayal of liberty. --Ruth Scurr, Wall Street Journal [W]ith typical boldness Israel invites us to reconceptualise our very idea of the Revolution. --Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint Overwhelmingly impressive. --Peter Watson, Times [P]acked with details ... [Revolutionary Ideas] is part of Israel's major project to give the Enlightenment, especially the Radical Enlightenment as he calls it, new luster. --NRC Handelsblad [M]ajestic. --Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Trinidad and Tobago News Israel, a professor of modern European history at Princeton, is a world authority on the 18th-century Enlightenment. Here he constructs a bold and brilliantly argued case that the 1789 French Revolution was propelled by the clash of innovative political doctrines that supported or contested Enlightenment values. --Tony Barber, Financial Times Israel, author of the pathbreaking studies on the Dutch Republic, European Jews, and more recently the radical Enlightenment, now turns his attention to the French Revolution, arguing that the underlying cause was ideological--namely, the impact of the radical Enlightenment resulting from the work of philosophers Denis Diderot, Claude Adrien Helvetius, and Paul-Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach... Israel takes them at their word, painstakingly poring through voluminous revolutionary newspapers and the archives parlementaires, records of the revolutionary national assemblies... This significant and nuanced study is a major reinterpretation. --Choice A racy account of the concepts that shaped the French Revolution and its people... The book leaves the reader with a strong impression of the power of ideas that unlock political energy and the strength of leadership needed to withstand fickle popular opinion. --Tom Watson, New Statesman A remarkable book... An enormously rich and engaging work that invites us to think and to challenge received wisdom. --Mark Curran, European History Quarterly Amazingly well-researched... To describe it as a very, very worthy read, would be an understatement of colossal, consequentialist design. --David Marx Book Reviews
Author Information
Jonathan Israel is professor of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Princeton).
