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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.Subjects: