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Enlightenment Contested Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

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ISBN-10: 0199541523

ISBN-13: 9780199541522

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonathan I. Israel

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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 attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. Israel traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes…    
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List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1024
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 2.09" tall
Weight: 3.476

Introductory
Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age
Philosophy and the Making of Modernity
The Crisis of Religious Authority
Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux
Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern
Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment
Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines
Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities
Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and Religion
Political Emancipation
Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity'
The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism
Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic
'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1689-1755
Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution'
Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model'
The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces
Intellectual Emancipation
The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism
The Recovery of Greek Thought
The Rise of 'History of Philosophy'
From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain
Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science'
The Party of Humanity
The Problem of Equality
Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women
Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism
Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other'
Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy
Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society?
Radical Philosophes
The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques (1734)
Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot
Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie, antivoltairianisme 1733-1747
From Voltaire to Diderot
The 'Unvirtuous Atheist'
The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-1752
The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-1752
Postscript
Bibliography
Index