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Radical Enlightenment Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

Israel, Jonathan I.
Innbundet / 2001 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198206088
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1274 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
166 mm
Dybde
47 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
832

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Israel, Jonathan I.

Radical Enlightenment Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

Israel, Jonathan I.
Innbundet / 2001 / Engelsk
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Massive and brilliant book ... Israel displays a profound, and contagious, sympathy for the intellectual movement he describes ... Israel has given us a vast panorama of the unfolding of Enlightenment thought during the crucial century between 1650 and 1750 ... The book is a real tour de force ... magisterial.

History Workshop Journal

A brilliant achievement, piecing together some highly elusive strands of the early enlightenment in a way which not only makes compulsive reading, but is also bound to have a major and permanent impact on enlightenment scholarship as a whole.

English Historical Review

This book gives the early radical enlightenment a clarity and power which historians of the early modern period will find impossible to ignore.

English Historical Review

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As a formidably well-researched history of radical thinking from the mid-seventeenth century through to the French Revolution, and of the scholars who confronted each other at the time in sometimes ferociously bitter disputes, this book has no rival.

English Historical Review

In an age of historical miniaturists, it is exhilarating to encounter a scholar who is willing to cover walls and ceilings with a magnificent sprawling historical fresco. Israel has put forward a Grand Historical Thesis of the sort that historians once revelled in, but that has largely gone out of style. He has done so, moreover, with panache and in detail, revealing a command of texts and archival documents, local milieux and international currents, that compels admiration Radical Enlightenment swarms with fascinating material of every sort, so rich and varied that no review can do it justice.

Anthony Grafton, Times Literary Supplement

Radical Enlightenment deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking, vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history.

David Horspool, The Guardian

Jonathan Israel's ardour, erudition and willingness to challenge widely accepted notions make his book a great achievement - one that entitles him to the gratitude of the entire world of learning.

Times Literary Supplement

Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.

John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph

Magnificent ... sumptuous in the energy, clarity, and of the breadth of its scholarship ... [A] masterpiece.

LA Times

Remarkable historical study ... the author succeeds in turning a mountain of evidence into crisp, fresh prose.

Out of the Pen

That Israel has taken so much learning and compressed it into such an informative and stimulating read is a remarkable achievement ... The book must be considered the standard by which future histories of philosophy will be measured.

The Philosophers' Magazine

We have gained a much more detailed and fine-grained view of the sheer diversity and intellectual creativity not just amongst those who may have been influenced by Spinoza, but also amongst their critics, and those who may be deemed part of either the moderate Enlightenment or even a Counter-Enlightenment.

Professor Thomas Munck, Reviews in History

Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justicfication for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man's dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery, substituting the modern principles of equality, democracy, and universality, the Radical Enlightenment played a crucially important part. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment have been astonishingly little studied doubtless largely because of its very wide international sweep and the obvious difficulty of fitting in into the restrictive conventions of 'national history' which until recently tended to dominate all historiography. The greatest obstacle to the Radical Enlightenment finding its proper place in modern historical writing is simply that it was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time. In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettie and Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.
Les mer
A study of the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment, an important part of the revolutionary process of change during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book analyzes the enlightenment's role in the demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought and belief.
Les mer
I. THE 'RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT'; II. THE RISE OF PHILOSOPHICAL RADICALISM; III. EUROPE AND THE 'NEW' INTELLECTUAL CONTROVERSIES 1680-1720; IV. THE INTELLECTUAL COUNTER-OFFENSIVE; V. THE CLANDESTINE PROGRESS OF THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT 1680-1750
Les mer
`The book must be considered the standard by which future histories of philosophy will be measured.' The Philosophers' Magazine `his descriptions of the clandestine preparation and publication of Spinoza's posthumous work, clearly conveying the urgency and danger of these highly subversive activities, are a tour de force.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `That Israel has taken so much learning and compressed it into such an informative and stimulating read is a remarkable achievement.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `Israel's ambitious scope is not the most remarkable aspect of the book. It is his unparalleled erudition and scholarly application in the execution of his project that strikes the reader.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `Israel makes his case with considerable zeal and evidences a clear love of his subject. His writing is clear, vigorous and stimulating.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `It is refreshing ... to find a history of a philosophical system that is just that: a 'history', and an outstanding history at that' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it.' A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend `Enter Jonathan Israel. His vast - and vastly impressive - book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The stupendous scale of this book ranges from London to Moscow, Stockholm to Naples, in a virtuoso display of polyglot learning.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph `By far the most subversive and influential of radicals, Israel argues, was Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77), the Amsterdam Jew whom most historians have tended to dismiss hitherto as the Cinderella at the Enlightenment Ball.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph `... powerful originality of a book that sets out to redefine the entire dramatis personae of the Enlightenment, re-assigning major roles, and introducing a far more varied and cosmopolitan cast than has ever previously been allowed to be seen.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph `Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph
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AHA Gershoy Prize 2001

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Massive and brilliant book ... Israel displays a profound, and contagious, sympathy for the intellectual movement he describes ... Israel has given us a vast panorama of the unfolding of Enlightenment thought during the crucial century between 1650 and 1750 ... The book is a real tour de force ... magisterial.

History Workshop Journal

A brilliant achievement, piecing together some highly elusive strands of the early enlightenment in a way which not only makes compulsive reading, but is also bound to have a major and permanent impact on enlightenment scholarship as a whole.

English Historical Review

This book gives the early radical enlightenment a clarity and power which historians of the early modern period will find impossible to ignore.

English Historical Review

Se alle

As a formidably well-researched history of radical thinking from the mid-seventeenth century through to the French Revolution, and of the scholars who confronted each other at the time in sometimes ferociously bitter disputes, this book has no rival.

English Historical Review

In an age of historical miniaturists, it is exhilarating to encounter a scholar who is willing to cover walls and ceilings with a magnificent sprawling historical fresco. Israel has put forward a Grand Historical Thesis of the sort that historians once revelled in, but that has largely gone out of style. He has done so, moreover, with panache and in detail, revealing a command of texts and archival documents, local milieux and international currents, that compels admiration Radical Enlightenment swarms with fascinating material of every sort, so rich and varied that no review can do it justice.

Anthony Grafton, Times Literary Supplement

Radical Enlightenment deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking, vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history.

David Horspool, The Guardian

Jonathan Israel's ardour, erudition and willingness to challenge widely accepted notions make his book a great achievement - one that entitles him to the gratitude of the entire world of learning.

Times Literary Supplement

Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.

John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph

Magnificent ... sumptuous in the energy, clarity, and of the breadth of its scholarship ... [A] masterpiece.

LA Times

Remarkable historical study ... the author succeeds in turning a mountain of evidence into crisp, fresh prose.

Out of the Pen

That Israel has taken so much learning and compressed it into such an informative and stimulating read is a remarkable achievement ... The book must be considered the standard by which future histories of philosophy will be measured.

The Philosophers' Magazine

We have gained a much more detailed and fine-grained view of the sheer diversity and intellectual creativity not just amongst those who may have been influenced by Spinoza, but also amongst their critics, and those who may be deemed part of either the moderate Enlightenment or even a Counter-Enlightenment.

Professor Thomas Munck, Reviews in History

Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justicfication for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man's dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery, substituting the modern principles of equality, democracy, and universality, the Radical Enlightenment played a crucially important part. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment have been astonishingly little studied doubtless largely because of its very wide international sweep and the obvious difficulty of fitting in into the restrictive conventions of 'national history' which until recently tended to dominate all historiography. The greatest obstacle to the Radical Enlightenment finding its proper place in modern historical writing is simply that it was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time. In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettie and Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.
Les mer
A study of the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment, an important part of the revolutionary process of change during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book analyzes the enlightenment's role in the demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought and belief.
Les mer
I. THE 'RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT'; II. THE RISE OF PHILOSOPHICAL RADICALISM; III. EUROPE AND THE 'NEW' INTELLECTUAL CONTROVERSIES 1680-1720; IV. THE INTELLECTUAL COUNTER-OFFENSIVE; V. THE CLANDESTINE PROGRESS OF THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT 1680-1750
Les mer
`The book must be considered the standard by which future histories of philosophy will be measured.' The Philosophers' Magazine `his descriptions of the clandestine preparation and publication of Spinoza's posthumous work, clearly conveying the urgency and danger of these highly subversive activities, are a tour de force.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `That Israel has taken so much learning and compressed it into such an informative and stimulating read is a remarkable achievement.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `Israel's ambitious scope is not the most remarkable aspect of the book. It is his unparalleled erudition and scholarly application in the execution of his project that strikes the reader.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `Israel makes his case with considerable zeal and evidences a clear love of his subject. His writing is clear, vigorous and stimulating.' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `It is refreshing ... to find a history of a philosophical system that is just that: a 'history', and an outstanding history at that' The Philosophers' Magazine, Winter 2002 `There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it.' A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend `Enter Jonathan Israel. His vast - and vastly impressive - book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The stupendous scale of this book ranges from London to Moscow, Stockholm to Naples, in a virtuoso display of polyglot learning.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph `By far the most subversive and influential of radicals, Israel argues, was Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77), the Amsterdam Jew whom most historians have tended to dismiss hitherto as the Cinderella at the Enlightenment Ball.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph `... powerful originality of a book that sets out to redefine the entire dramatis personae of the Enlightenment, re-assigning major roles, and introducing a far more varied and cosmopolitan cast than has ever previously been allowed to be seen.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph `Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.' John Adamson, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Sunday Telegraph
Les mer
AHA Gershoy Prize 2001

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198206088
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1274 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
166 mm
Dybde
47 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
832

Forfatter
Israel, Jonathan I.

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