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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Etat : as new. Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, c2006. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxiv, 983 pp. Ills. Contents : Part I: Introductory. Early enlightenment, revolution, and the modern age. Ancien Régime and Revolution ; Historians and the writing of "intellectual history" ; L'Esprit philosophique --Philosophy and the making of modernity. Spinoza and Spinozism in the radical enlightenment ; Locke, Hume, and the making of modernity -- Part II: The crisis of religious authority. Reason and faith: Bayle versus the Rationaux. Europe's religious crisis ; Consensus gentium and the Philosophes ; Voltaire and the eclipse of Bayle -- Demolishing priesthood, ancient and modern -- Socinianism and the social, psychological, and cultural roots of Enlightenment -- Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: a contest of three toleration doctrines. Toleration from Locke to Barbeyrac ; Bayle's freedom of conscience ; Spinoza's liberty of thought and expression -- Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, society, and the universities. The problem of 'Atheism' ; Academic disputations and the making of German radical thought ; An alternative route? Johann Lorenz Schmidt and 'Left' Wolffian radicalism ; Natural theology, natural law, and the radical challenge -- Newtonianism and anti-Newtonianism in the early Enlightenment: science, philosophy, and religion. English physico-theology ; From's-Gravesande to d'Alembert (1720-1750) -- pt. III: Political emancipation. Anti-Hobbesianism and the making of 'modernity' -- The origins of modern democratic republicanism. Classical republicanism versus democratic republicanism ; Democracy in radical thought -- Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: secular monarchy versus the aristocratic republic. Bayle's politics ; Early Enlightenment French political thought ; The ideal of mixed monarchy -- 'Enlightened despotism': autocracy, faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (1689-1755) Peter the Great's 'revolution' (1689-1725) ; Europe and the Russian Enlightenment (1725-1755) ; Locke, Newton, and Leibniz in the Greek cultural diaspora -- Popular sovereignty, resistance, and the 'right to revolution' -- Anglomania, Anglicisme, and the 'British model'. -- English deism and the recoil from radicalism ; French Anglicisme ; Anglicisme and anti-anglicisme in the mid eighteenth century -- The triumph of the 'moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces. The defeat of Dutch radical thought: the social context ; Intellectual realignment within the Huguenot diaspora ; The Orangist restoration (1747-1751); Part IV: Intellectual emancipation. The overthrow of humanist criticism. Ars critica ; Secularization of the sacred ; Man and myth -- The recovery of Greek thought ; 'Rationalizing the gods': disputing Xenophanes ; Strato, Spinoza, and the Philosophes ; Spinozism: a reworking of Greek Stoicism? -- The rise of 'history of philosophy'. Pre-Enlightenment 'history of philosophy' ; German eclecticism and the rise of a new discipline ; 'Radical Renaissance' --From 'history of philosophy' to history of l'Esprit humain. Fontenelle, Boulainvilliers, and 'l'histoire de l'esprit humain' ; Diderot and the history of human thought -- Italy, the two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'new science'. Italy embraces the mainstream Enlightenment ; Vico's 'Divine providence' ; A restored Italo-Greek wisdom? -- Part V: The party of humanity. The problem of equality. Enlightenment and basic equality ; Aristocracy, radical thought, and educational reform -- Sex, marriage, and the equality of women. Cartesianism and female equality ; Marriage, chastity, and prostitution ; The erotic emancipation of woman, and man --Race, radical thought, and the advent of anti-colonialism. Enlightenment against empire ; Slavery and the early Enlightenment ; Empire and national identity -- Rethinking Islam: philosophy and the 'other'. Islam and toleration ; Bayle and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) ; Ibn Tufayl and the hidden wisdom of the East ; The clandestine 'Enlightenment' of the Zindikites --Spinoza, Confucius, and classical Chinese philosophy. China and Spinozismus ante Spinozam ; Leibniz, Wolff, and Chinese prisca theologia ; Voltaire, Montesquieu, and China -- Is religion needed for a well-ordered society? Separating morality from theology ; 'Moderate' Enlightenment deist morality ; Radical thought and the construction of a secular morality --Part VI: Radical Philosophes. The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques (1734). The post-1715 reaction to absolutism ; The materialist challenge ; Clandestinity -- Men, animals, plants, and fossils: French Hylozoic Matérialisme before Diderot -- Realigning the Parti philosophique: Voltaire, Voltairianisme, Antivoltairianisme (1732-1745). Voltaire's Enlightenment ; The defeat of Voltaire and the French 'Newtonians' ; Breakdown of the Lockean-Newtonian synthesis -- From Voltaire to Diderot -- The 'unvirtuous atheist'. The 'Affaire La Mettrie' (1745-1752) ; Atheistic amoralism -- The Parti philosophique embraces the radical Enlightenment. Radicalization of the Diderot circle ; The 'quarrel' of the Esprit des lois (1748-1752) -- The 'war of the Encyclopédie': the first stage (1745-1752) -- Postscript. 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 ecclesiastica. N° de réf. du vendeur 244620
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