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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aIsrael, Jonathan
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245 1 2 _aA Revolution of the Mind :
_bRadical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy /
_cJonathan Israel.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tCHAPTER I. Progress and the Enlightenment's Two Conflicting Ways of Improving the World --
_tCHAPTER II. Democracy or Social Hierarchy? The Political Rift --
_tCHAPTER III. The Problem of Equality and Inequality: The Rise of Economics --
_tCHAPTER IV. The Enlightenment's Critique of War and the Quest for "Perpetual Peace" --
_tCHAPTER V. Two Kinds of Moral Philosophy in Conflict --
_tCHAPTER VI. Voltaire versus Spinoza: The Enlightenment as a Basic Duality of Philosophical Systems --
_tCHAPTER VII. Conclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
520 _aDemocracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize. In A Revolution of the Mind, Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what were the least respectable strata of Enlightenment thought--what he calls the Radical Enlightenment. Originating as a clandestine movement of ideas that was almost entirely hidden from public view during its earliest phase, the Radical Enlightenment matured in opposition to the moderate mainstream Enlightenment dominant in Europe and America in the eighteenth century. During the revolutionary decades of the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s, the Radical Enlightenment burst into the open, only to provoke a long and bitter backlash. A Revolution of the Mind shows that this vigorous opposition was mainly due to the powerful impulses in society to defend the principles of monarchy, aristocracy, empire, and racial hierarchy--principles linked to the upholding of censorship, church authority, social inequality, racial segregation, religious discrimination, and far-reaching privilege for ruling groups. In telling this fascinating history, A Revolution of the Mind reveals the surprising origin of our most cherished values--and helps explain why in certain circles they are frequently disapproved of and attacked even today.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / General.
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