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Record Nr.

UNISA996248322803316

Autore

Israel Jonathan <1946->

Titolo

Radical enlightenment : philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750 / / Jonathan I. Israel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-159180-7

1-280-75871-6

0-19-167697-7

0-19-162287-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (5870 p.)

Disciplina

190

940.2/5

940.25

Soggetti

Il·lustració - Europa

Cultura europea - S. XVII

Cultura europea - S. XVIII

Llibres electrònics

Europe Civilization 17th century

Europe Civilization 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Map and Tables; Abbreviations of Library and Archive Locations; Other Abbreviations; PART I: THE 'RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT'; 1. Introduction; 2. Government and Philosophy; 3. Society, Institutions, Revolution; 4. Women, Philosophy, and Sexuality; 5. Censorship and Culture; 6. Libraries and Enlightenment; 7. The Learned Journals; PART II: THE RISE OF PHILOSOPHICAL RADICALISM; 8. Spinoza; 9. Van den Enden: Philosophy, Democracy, and Egalitarianism

10. Radicalism and the People: The Brothers Koerbagh11. Philosophy, the Interpreter of Scripture; 12. Miracles Denied; 13. Spinoza's System; 14. Spinoza, Science, and the Scientists; 15. Philosophy, Politics, and



the Liberation of Man; 16. Publishing a Banned Philosophy; 17. The Spread of a Forbidden Movement; PART III: EUROPE AND THE 'NEW' INTELLECTUAL CONTROVERSIES (1680-1720); 18. Bayle and the 'Virtuous Atheist'; 19. The Bredenburg Disputes; 20. Fontenelle and the War of the Oracles; 21. The Death of the Devil; 22. Leenhof and the 'Universal Philosophical Religion'

23. The 'Nature of God' Controversy (1710-1720)PART IV: THE INTELLECTUAL COUNTER-OFFENSIVE; 24. New Theological Strategies; 25. The Collapse of Cartesianism; 26. Leibniz and the Radical Enlightenment; 27. Anglomania: The 'Triumph' of Newton and Locke; 28. The Intellectual Drama in Spain and Portugal; 29. Germany and the Baltic: the 'War of the Philosophers'; PART V: THE CLANDESTINE PROGRESS OF THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT (1680-1750); 30. Boulainvilliers and the Rise of French Deism; 31. French Refugee Deists in Exile; 32. The Spinozistic Novel in French; 33. English Deism and Europe

34. Germany: The Radical Aufklärung35. The Radical Impact in Italy; 36. The Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts; 37. From La Mettrie to Diderot; 38. Epilogue: Rousseau, Radicalism, Revolution; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

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, andecclesiastical authority, as well as man's asendancy over woman and theology's domination over education and study, substi