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

• Autore: Israel Jonathan <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (5870 p.)
• Disciplina: 190; 940.2/5; 940.25
• Soggetto topico: Il·lustració - Europa; Cultura europea - S. XVII; Cultura europea - S. XVIII
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Civilization 17th century; Europe Civilization 18th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750
• Titolo autorizzato: Radical enlightenment
• ISBN: 0-19-159180-7; 1-280-75871-6; 0-19-167697-7; 0-19-162287-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248322803316
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