Revolution of the Mind Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

Name: Revolution of the Mind Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
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ISBN: 9780691152608

ISBN-10: 0691152608

ISBN-13: 9780691152608

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jonathan Israel

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Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize. InA Revolution of the Mind, Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what were the least respectable strata of Enlightenment thought--what he calls the Radical…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Jonathan Israel is professor of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His books include "A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy" (Princeton) and a monumental history of the Enlightenment in three volumes: "Radical Enlightenment", "Enlightenment Contested", and "Democratic Enlightenment".



Preface



Progress and the Enlightenment's Two Conflicting Ways of Improving the World



Democracy or Social Hierarchy? The Political Rift



The Problem of Equality and Inequality: The Rise of Economics



The Enlightenment's Critique of War and the Quest for "Perpetual Peace"



Two Kinds of Moral Philosophy inTCohflict



Voltaire versus Spinoza: The Enlightenment as a Basic Duality of Philosophical Systems



Conclusion


Notes


Index