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OverviewThe 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 the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. He demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. From 1789, its impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups who took the lead in the French National assembly, the Paris commune, or the editing of the Parisian revolutionary journals, they nonetheless forged 'la philosophie moderne' -- in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas -- into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America and eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. Whilst all French revolutionary journals clearly stated that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste 'Revolution of reason'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Israel (Professor of Modern History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.90cm , Height: 6.10cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 1.589kg ISBN: 9780199548200ISBN 10: 019954820 Pages: 1088 Publication Date: 11 August 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of Contents1. Introduction; PART 1: THE RADICAL CHALLENGE; 2. Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition; 3. The Encyclopedie Suppressed (1752-60); 4. Rousseau against the Philosophes; 5. Voltaire, Enlightenment and the European Courts; 6. Anti-Philosophes; 7. Central Europe: Aufklarung divided; PART II: RATIONALIZING THE ANCIEN REGIME; 8. Hume, Scepticism, and Moderation; 9. Scottish Enlightenment and Man's Progress; 10. Enlightened Despotism; 11. Aufklarung and the Fracturing of German Protestant Culture; 12. Catholic Enlightenment: the Papacy's Retreat; 13. Society and the Rise of the Italian revolutionary Enlightenment; 14. Spain and the Challenge of Reform; PART III: EUROPE AND THE RE-MAKING OF THE WORLD; 15. The Histoire Philosophique, or Colonialism Overturned; 16. The American Revolution; 17. Europe and the Amerindians; 18. Philosophy and Revolt in Ibero-America (1765-92); 19. Commercial Despotism: Dutch Colonialism in Asia; 20. China, Japan, and the West; 21. India and the Two Enlightenments; 22. Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs; PART IV: SPINOZA CONTROVERSIES IN THE LATER ENLIGHTENMENT; 23. Rousseau, Spinoza and the 'General Will'; 24. Radical Break-Through; 25. The Pantheismusstreit (1780-87); 26. Kant and the Radical Challenge; 27. Goethe, Schiller and the new Dutch Revolt against Spain ; PART V: REVOLUTION; 28. 1788-9: the General Revolution begins; 29. The Diffusion; 30. 'Philosophy' as the Maker of Revolutions; 31. Aufklarung and the Secret Societies (1776-92); 32. Small State Revolution in the 1780s; 33. The Dutch Democratic Revolution of the 1780s; 34. The French Revolution: from 'Philosophy' to Basic Human Rights (1788-90); 35. Epilogue: 1789 as an Intellectual RevolutionReviewsIsrael has turned up evidence of the Radical Enlightenment's influence in surprising places, and that labor alone should ensure that this book finds a place on every specialist's shelf. New York Times Book Review a brave and ambitious historian...Israel has found a way of dramatising the debates and attitudes which eventually lay the foundations for something we can call modernity. BBC History Magazine a brave and ambitious historian...Israel has found a way of dramatising the debates and attitudes which eventually lay the foundations for something we can call modernity. BBC History Magazine Israel has turned up evidence of the Radical Enlightenment's influence in surprising places, and that labor alone should ensure that this book finds a place on every specialist's shelf. New York Times Book Review a brave and ambitious historian...Israel has found a way of dramatising the debates and attitudes which eventually lay the foundations for something we can call modernity. BBC History Magazine Taken either singly or as part of a trilogy, Democratic Enlightenment is a remarkable achievement, and deservedly places Israel among the finest intellectual historians of our day. Times Literary Supplement <br> A magisterial study of the immediate and middle-range intellectual underpinnings of the French and subsequent democratic revolutions...this trilogy is by far the most comprehensive and best study of the late 18th-century attitudinal changes that shaped modern thought and action...No serious work equals it in span...or depth...this is an essential book for all who are studying the Enlightenment. -- Library Journal<br><p><br> Author InformationJonathan Israel is Professor of Modern History at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and corresponding fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. His previous books include The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750, and Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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