04330nam 2200685 a 450 991081407060332120210426220852.00-19-162004-11-283-34849-797866133484940-19-161754-7(CKB)2550000000064063(EBL)800816(OCoLC)760887079(SSID)ssj0000551170(PQKBManifestationID)12201333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551170(PQKBWorkID)10524735(PQKB)11625484(MiAaPQ)EBC800816(Au-PeEL)EBL800816(CaPaEBR)ebr10509716(CaONFJC)MIL334849(PPN)19004702X(EXLCZ)99255000000006406320111109d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDemocratic enlightenment[electronic resource] philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790 /Jonathan IsraelNew York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (1083 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-966809-4 0-19-954820-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1: The radical challenge. Nature and providence: earthquakes and the human condition -- The Encyclopédie suppressed (1752-1760) -- Rousseau against the Philosophes -- Voltaire, enlightenment, and the European courts -- Anti-philosophes -- Central Europe: Aufklärung divided -- Pt. 2: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime. Hume, scepticism, and moderation -- Scottish enlightenment and man's 'progress' -- Enlightened despotism -- Aufklärung and the fracturing of German protestant culture -- Catholic enlightenment: the papacy's retreat -- Society and the rise of the Italian revolutionary enlightenment -- Spain and the challenge of reform -- Pt. 3: Europe and the remaking of the world. The Histoire philosophique, or colonialism overturned -- The American revolution -- Europe and the Amerindians -- Philosophy and revolt in Ibero-America (1765-1792) -- Commercial despotism: Dutch colonialism in Asia -- China, Japan, and the West -- India and the two enlightenments -- Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs -- Pt. 4: Spinoza controversies in the later enlightenment. Rousseau, Spinoza, and the 'general will' -- Radical breakthrough -- Pantheismusstreit (1780-1787) -- Kant and the radical challenge -- Goethe, Schiller, and the new 'Dutch Revolt' against Spain -- Pt. 5: Revolution. 1788-1789: the 'general revolution' begins -- The diffusion -- 'Philosophy' as a maker of revolutions -- Aufklärung and the secret societies (1776-1792) -- Small-state revolutions in the 1780s -- The Dutch democratic revolution of the 1780s -- The French revolution: from 'philosophy' to basic human rights (1788-1790) -- Epilogue: 1789 as an intellectual revolution.The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to thepresent day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. He demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentEnlightenmentDemocracyHistoryPhilosophy, Modern18th centuryIntellectual lifeHistory18th centuryEuropeHistory1648-1789EuropeIntellectual life18th centuryEuropePolitics and government1648-1789Enlightenment.DemocracyHistory.Philosophy, ModernIntellectual lifeHistory190.9033Israel Jonathan1946-258955MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814070603321Democratic enlightenment1553627UNINA