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Israel Jonathan <1946-> |
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Enlightenment contested [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man, 1670-1752 / / Jonathan Israel |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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0-19-954152-3 |
0-19-153541-9 |
1-280-84407-8 |
1-4294-6947-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1025 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Enlightenment |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [872]-953) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; Abbreviations of Library and Archive Locations; Other Abbreviations; PART I: INTRODUCTORY; 1. Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age; 1. Ancien ReĢgime and Revolution; 2. Historians and the Writing of 'Intellectual History'; 3. L'Esprit philosophique; 2. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity; 1. Spinoza and Spinozism in the Radical Enlightenment; 2. Locke,Hume, and the Making of Modernity; PART II: THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY; 3. Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux; 1. Europe's Religious Crisis |
2. Consensus gentium and the Philosophes3. Voltaire and the Eclipse of Bayle; 4. Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern; 5. Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment; 6. Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines; 1. Toleration from Locke to Barbeyrac; 2. Bayle's Freedom of Conscience; 3. Spinoza's Liberty of Thought and Expression; 7. Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities; 1. The Problem of 'Atheism'; 2. Academic Disputations and the Making of German Radical Thought |
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3. An Alternative Route? Johann Lorenz Schmidt and 'Left' Wolffian Radicalism4. Natural Theology, Natural Law, and the Radical Challenge; 8. Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and Religion; 1. English Physico-theology; 2. From's-Gravesande to d' Alembert (1720-1750); PART III: POLITICAL EMANCIPATION; 9. Anti-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity'; 10. The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism; 1. Classical Republicanism versus Democratic Republicanism; 2. Democracy in Radical Thought |
11. Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic1. Bayle's Politics; 2. Early Enlightenment French Political Thought; 3. The Ideal of Mixed Monarchy; 12. 'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (1689-1755); 1. Peter the Great's 'Revolution' (1689-1725); 2. Europe and the Russian Enlightenment (1725-1755); 3. Locke, Newton, and Leibniz in the Greek Cultural Diaspora; 13. Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution'; 14. Anglomania, Anglicisme, and the 'British Model' |
1. English Deism and the Recoil from Radicalism2. French Anglicisme; 3. Anglicisme and Anti-anglicisme in the Mid Eighteenth Century; 15. The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces; 1. The Defeat of Dutch Radical Thought: The Social Context; 2. Intellectual Realignment within the Huguenot Diaspora; 3. The Orangist Restoration (1747-1751); PART IV: INTELLECTUAL EMANCIPATION; 16. The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism; 1. Ars critica; 2. Secularization of the Sacred; 3. Man and Myth; 17. The Recovery of Greek Thought; 1. 'Rationalizing the Gods': Disputing Xenophanes |
2. Strato, Spinoza, and the Philosophes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel now focuses on the first half of the eighteenth century. He traces 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. - ;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 |
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