Enlightenment Contested

Produktbeschreibung

The first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel now focuses on the first half of the eighteenth century. He traces to their roots the core principles of Western modernity: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* I: Introductory


* 1: Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age


* 2: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity


* II: The Crisis of Religious Authority


* 3: Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux


* 4: Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern


* 5: Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of
Enlightenment


* 6: Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines


* 7: Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities


* 8: Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science,
Philosophy, and Religion


* III: Political Emancipation


* 9: Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity'


* 10: The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism


* 11: Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the
Aristocratic Republic


* 12: 'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern
and South-Eastern Europe 1689-1755


* 13: Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution'


* 14: Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model'


* 15: The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces


* IV: Intellectual Emancipation


* 16: The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism


* 17: The Recovery of Greek Thought


* 18: The Rise of 'History of Philosophy'


* 19: From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain


* 20: Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science'


* V: The Party of Humanity


* 21: The Problem of Equality


* 22: Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women


* 23: Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism


* 24: Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other'


* 25: Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy


* 26: Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society?


* VI: Radical Philosophes


* 27: The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques
(1734)


* 28: Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot


* 29: Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie,
antivoltairianisme 1733-1747


* 30: From Voltaire to Diderot


* 31: The 'Unvirtuous Atheist'


* 32: The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-1752


* 33: The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-1752


* 34: Postscript


* Bibliography


* Index 

Kritik

The core ideas of this book deserve to be widely disseminated and debated. 

Autoreninfo

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