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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction Part 1: The Radical Challenge 2: Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition 3: The Encyclopédie Suppressed (1752-60) 4: Rousseau against the Philosophes 5: Voltaire, Enlightenment, and the European Courts 6: Anti-Philosophes 7: Central Europe: Aufklärung divided Part II: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime 8: Hume, Scepticism, and Moderation 9: Scottish Enlightenment and Man's Progress 10: Enlightened Despotism 11: Aufklärung 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: Aufklärung 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 Revolution
1: Introduction Part 1: The Radical Challenge 2: Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition 3: The Encyclopédie Suppressed (1752-60) 4: Rousseau against the Philosophes 5: Voltaire, Enlightenment, and the European Courts 6: Anti-Philosophes 7: Central Europe: Aufklärung divided Part II: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime 8: Hume, Scepticism, and Moderation 9: Scottish Enlightenment and Man's Progress 10: Enlightened Despotism 11: Aufklärung 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: Aufklärung 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 Revolution
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