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Democratic enlightenment : philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790
—Israel, Jonathan, 1946-
2011

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ISBN:

  • 9780199668090 (pbk)
  • 9780199548200 (hc)

Description: xvi, 1066 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

  • Pt. 1: The radical challenge. Nature and providence: earthquakes and the human condition
  • The Encyclopédie suppressed (1752-1760)
  • Rousseau against the Philosophes
  • Voltaire, enlightenment, and the European courts
  • Anti-philosophes
  • Central Europe: Aufklärung divided
  • Pt. 2: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime. Hume, scepticism, and moderation
  • Scottish enlightenment and man's 'progress'
  • Enlightened despotism
  • Aufklärung and the fracturing of German protestant culture
  • Catholic enlightenment: the papacy's retreat
  • Society and the rise of the Italian revolutionary enlightenment
  • Spain and the challenge of reform
  • Pt. 3: Europe and the remaking of the world. The Histoire philosophique, or colonialism overturned
  • The American revolution
  • Europe and the Amerindians
  • Philosophy and revolt in Ibero-America (1765-1792)
  • Commercial despotism: Dutch colonialism in Asia
  • China, Japan, and the West
  • India and the two enlightenments
  • Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs
  • Pt. 4: Spinoza controversies in the later enlightenment. Rousseau, Spinoza, and the 'general will'
  • Radical breakthrough
  • Pantheismusstreit (1780-1787)
  • Kant and the radical challenge
  • Goethe, Schiller, and the new 'Dutch Revolt' against Spain
  • Pt. 5: Revolution. 1788-1789: the 'general revolution' begins
  • The diffusion
  • 'Philosophy' as a maker of revolutions
  • Aufklärung and the secret societies (1776-1792)
  • Small-state revolutions in the 1780s
  • The Dutch democratic revolution of the 1780s
  • The French revolution: from 'philosophy' to basic human rights (1788-1790)
  • Epilogue: 1789 as an intellectual revolution.

LCCN: 2011275205

Control Number: 843209

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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