Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 - Brossura

Israel, Jonathan I.

 
9780199541522: Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
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ISBN 10: 0199541523 ISBN 13: 9780199541522
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

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Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought.

Israel traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and 'materialist' radical fringe. He also contends that the supposedly separate French, British, German, Dutch, and Italian enlightenments interacted to such a degree that their study in isolation gives a hopelessly distorted picture.

A work of dazzling and highly accessible scholarship, Enlightenment Contested will be the definitive reference point for historians, philosophers, and anyone engaged with this fascinating period of human development.

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Jonathan Israel is Professor of Modern European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199541523
ISBN 13 
9780199541522
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Numero di pagine
1024
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9780199279227: Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

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ISBN 10:  0199279225 ISBN 13:  9780199279227
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2006
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