Radical enlightenment : philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750

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

This is a study of the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment. The book analyses the enlightenment's role in the demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought and belief.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Israel, Jonathan, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677
1600-1799
Enlightenment > Europe.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Civilization
Enlightenment
Europe > Civilization > 17th century.
Europe > Civilization > 18th century.
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of plates
  • List of figures
  • List of map and tables
  • Abbreviations of library and archive locations
  • 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 Koerbagh
  • 11. 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
  • 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 Aufklärung
  • 35. The radical impact in Italy
  • 36. The clandestine philosophical manuscripts
  • 37. From La Mettrie to Diderot
  • 38. Epilogue : Rousseau, radicalism, revolution
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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