Democratic Enlightenment

Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Israel's radical new account of the late Enlightenment highlights forgotten currents and figures. Running counter to mainstream thinking, he demonstrates how a group of philosophe-revolutionnaires provided the intellectual powerhouse of the French Revolution, and how their ideas connect with modern Western democracy. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* 1: Introduction


* Part 1: The Radical Challenge


* 2: Nature and Providence: Earthquakes and the Human Condition


* 3: The Encyclopédie Suppressed (1752-60)


* 4: Rousseau against the Philosophes


* 5: Voltaire, Enlightenment, and the European Courts


* 6: Anti-Philosophes


* 7: Central Europe: Aufklärung divided


* Part II: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime


* 8: Hume, Scepticism, and Moderation


* 9: Scottish Enlightenment and Man's Progress


* 10: Enlightened Despotism


* 11: Aufklärung and the Fracturing of German Protestant Culture


* 12: Catholic Enlightenment: the Papacy's Retreat


* 13: Society and the Rise of the Italian revolutionary Enlightenment


* 14: Spain and the Challenge of Reform


* Part III: Europe and the Re-Making of the World


* 15: The Histoire Philosophique, or Colonialism Overturned


* 16: The American Revolution


* 17: Europe and the Amerindians


* 18: Philosophy and Revolt in Ibero-America (1765-92)


* 19: Commercial Despotism: Dutch Colonialism in Asia


* 20: China, Japan, and the West


* 21: India and the Two Enlightenments


* 22: Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs


* Part IV: Spinoza Controversies in the Later Enlightenment


* 23: Rousseau, Spinoza and the 'General Will'


* 24: Radical Break-Through


* 25: The Pantheismusstreit (1780-87)


* 26: Kant and the Radical Challenge


* 27: Goethe, Schiller and the new "Dutch Revolt against Spain"


* Part V: Revolution


* 28: 1788-9: the "General Revolution" begins


* 29: The Diffusion


* 30: 'Philosophy' as the Maker of Revolutions


* 31: Aufklärung and the Secret Societies (1776-92)


* 32: Small State Revolution in the 1780s


* 33: The Dutch Democratic Revolution of the 1780s


* 34: The French Revolution: from 'Philosophy' to Basic Human Rights (1788-90)


* 35: Epilogue: 1789 as an Intellectual Revolution 

Autoreninfo

Jonathan Israel taught successively at the universities of Newcastle, Hull, and at University College London from 1970 to 2000. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Modern history at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and corresponding fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. His previous books include The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806 (1995); The Radical Enlightenment (2001) and Enlightenment Contested (2006).