Democratic enlightenment [electronic resource] : philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790 / Jonathan Israel.
By: Israel, Jonathan I. (Jonathan Irvine).
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: xvi, 1066 p. : ill.Subject(s): Enlightenment | Democracy -- History | Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century | Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century | Europe -- History -- 1648-1789 | Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Europe -- Politics and government -- 1648-1789Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 190.9033 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1: The radical challenge. Nature and providence: earthquakes and the human condition -- The Encyclop�edie suppressed (1752-1760) -- Rousseau against the Philosophes -- Voltaire, enlightenment, and the European courts -- Anti-philosophes -- Central Europe: Aufkl�arung divided -- Pt. 2: Rationalizing the Ancien R�egime. Hume, scepticism, and moderation -- Scottish enlightenment and man's 'progress' -- Enlightened despotism -- Aufkl�arung 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 -- Aufkl�arung 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.
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