RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT: PHILOSOPHY AND THE MAKING OF MODERNITY 1650-1750

Israel, Jonathan I.

ISBN 10: 0199254567 / ISBN 13: 9780199254569

Verlag: Oxford University Press, US, 2002

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Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover is clean and bright. Bottom-right corner to cover is slightly curled. Text block is clean. Spine is uncreased.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT: PHILOSOPHY AND THE MAKING OF MODERNITY 1650-1750
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, US
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0199254567
• ISBN-13: 9780199254569
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 1st.
• Zustand: Very Good +
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good +
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Inhaltsangabe

Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief, by the new philosophy and the philosophies, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, slavery, and ecclesiastical authority, as well as man's asendancy over woman and theology's domination over education and study, substituting the modern principles of equality, democracy, and universality, the Radical Enlightenment played a crucially important part. Despite the present-day interest in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment have been astonishingly little studied, doubtless largely because if its very wide international sweep and the obvious difficulties of fitting it into the restrictive conventions of 'national history' which until recently tended to dominate all historiography. The greatest obstacle to the Radical Enlightenment finding its proper place in modern historical writing is simply that it was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time. In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettrie and Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan Israel is a professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.