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Presenting a reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation, this book focuses on the first half of the eighteenth century. It aims to trace to their roots the core principles of Western modernity: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression.
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Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. Israel traces many of the core principlesof Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation,and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and 'materialist' radical fringe. He also contends that the supposedly separate French, British, German, Dutch, and Italian enlightenments interacted to such a degree that their study inisolation gives a hopelessly distorted picture.A work of dazzling and highly accessible scholarship, Enlightenment Contested will be the definitive reference point for historians, philosophers,and anyone engaged with this fascinating period of human development.
Notes
A major new reinterpretation of the Enlightenment by its leading historian, demonstrating how key values of modern, Western societies were conceived.
Author Biography
Jonathan Israel is Professor of Modern European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Table of Contents
I: Introductory1: Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age2: Philosophy and the Making of ModernityII: The Crisis of Religious Authority3: Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux4: Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern5: Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment6: Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines7: Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities8: Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and ReligionIII: Political Emancipation9: Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity'10: The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism11: Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic12: 'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1689-175513: Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution'14: Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model'15: The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United ProvincesIV: Intellectual Emancipation16: The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism17: The Recovery of Greek Thought18: The Rise of 'History of Philosophy'19: From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain20: Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science'V: The Party of Humanity21: The Problem of Equality22: Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women23: Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism24: Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other'25: Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy26: Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society?VI: Radical Philosophes27: The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques (1734)28: Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot29: Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie, antivoltairianisme 1733-174730: From Voltaire to Diderot31: The 'Unvirtuous Atheist'32: The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-175233: The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-175234: PostscriptBibliographyIndex
Review
The core ideas of this book deserve to be widely disseminated and debated.`Review from previous edition Enter Jonathan Israel. His vast - and vastly impressive - book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The stupendous scale of this book ranges from London to Moscow, Stockholm to Naples, in a virtuoso display of polyglot learning . . . Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.'John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph`There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it.'A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend`The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway ... Five years from now, our views of the Enlightenment will have been enormously influenced by Israel.'Peter Watson, New Statesman`Deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history'David Horspool, The Guardian
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In this magisterial survey of the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel returns to the primary texts to offer a major new interpretation of the nature and development of philosophical thinking
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Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. Israel traces many of the core principlesof Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation,and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and 'materialist' radical fringe. He also contends that the supposedly separate French, British, German, Dutch, and Italian enlightenments interacted to such a degree that their study inisolation gives a hopelessly distorted picture.A work of dazzling and highly accessible scholarship, Enlightenment Contested will be the definitive reference point for historians, philosophers,and anyone engaged with this fascinating period of human development.
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The core ideas of this book deserve to be widely disseminated and debated.`Review from previous edition Enter Jonathan Israel. His vast - and vastly impressive - book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The stupendous scale of this book ranges from London to Moscow, Stockholm to Naples, in a virtuoso display of polyglot learning . . . Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.'John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph`There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it.'A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend`The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway ... Five years from now, our views of the Enlightenment will have been enormously influenced by Israel.'Peter Watson, New Statesman`Deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history'David Horspool, The Guardian
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'The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbedevery nuance, followed up every byway ... Five years from now, our views of theEnlightenment will have been enormously influenced by Israel.'Peter Watson, New Statesman
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Superb follow-up to the best-selling Radical EnlightenmentMajor new reinterpretation of the Enlightenment by its leading historianBreath-taking scholarship on an unprecedented scale
Details ISBN0199279225 Author Jonathan I. Israel Short Title ENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED Language English ISBN-10 0199279225 ISBN-13 9780199279227 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2006 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Residence US Birth 1946 Affiliation Professor of Modern European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton DOI 10.1604/9780199279227 UK Release Date 2006-10-12 AU Release Date 2006-10-12 NZ Release Date 2006-10-12 Illustrations 16pp plates, 3 in-text half-tones Pages 1024 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2006-10-12 Alternative 9780199541522 DEWEY 190.9033 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this
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