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Enlightenment Contested - Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (Hardcover)
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Enlightenment Contested - Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (Hardcover)
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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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