Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advance Professor of Modern History

Broschiertes Buch

Democratic Enlightenment

Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790

Beschreibung

Jonathan Israel's radical new account of the late Enlightenment highlights forgotten currents and figures. Running counter to mainstream thinking, he demonstrates how a group of philosophe-revolutionnaires provided the intellectual powerhouse of the French Revolution, and how their ideas connect with modern Western democracy.

Autor

Jonathan Israel taught successively at the universities of Newcastle, Hull, and at University College London from 1970 to 2000. Since 2001 he has been 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 (1995); The Radical Enlightenment (2001) and Enlightenment Contested (2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1104
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 61mm
• Gewicht: 1544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199668090
• ISBN-10: 0199668094
• Artikelnr.: 36451208