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

Name: Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
ISBN: 9780199279227

Jonathan I. Israel

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The author presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the 18th century, he returns to the original sources to offer a new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. The author 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.

Kategoriler:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - European & American Philosophy

Yıl:

2006

Yayımcı:

Oxford University Press, USA

Dil:

english

Sayfalar:

1009

ISBN 10:

0199279225