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Title	:	Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Author	:	Jonathan I. Israel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 834 pages
Published	:	September 12th 2002 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Philosophy. History. European History. Nonfiction. Science. Religion. Literature. 18th Century

Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Paperback | Pages: 834 pages

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In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. The Radical Enlightenment played a part in this revolutionary process, which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man's dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of the eighteenth century, the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment have received limited scholarly attention. The greatest obstacle to the movement finding its proper place in modern historical writing is its international scope: the Radical Enlightenment was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time.

In this wide-ranging volume, Jonathan Israel offers a novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettie and Diderot, two of its key exponents. Particular emphasis is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.

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Original Title:	Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
ISBN:	0199254567 (ISBN13: 9780199254569)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Leo Gershoy Award (2001)

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The authoritative work on the Enlightenment.

Stupendously detailed and very much a deep dive into the interconnectedness of the Early Enlightenment. Israel's work helped me define more clearly the international nature of the "Republic of Letters" with clandestine philosophical manuscripts changing hands frequently at book fairs. Israel also introduces a whole cast of secondary philosophes I had never encountered previously: Fontenelle, Van den Enden, La Mettrie, and so on. These figures were influential in communicating the ideas of the

Excellent book and ideas, with some flaws I found irritating. First, some quotes are provided without translations - I wish my French was better, and I have no real understanding of Dutch - and it would have been nice to link to the translation, if not had it displayed in the text. Second, the history is very detailed, a bit too much for my taste, and I would have preferred a somewhat higher-level view of the actions of the various actors in the enlightenment drama, although as I pored on, the

This detailed intellectual history contrasts the "radical" Enlightenment of Spinoza with the moderate version represented by John Locke. The author documents a five-way battle for the minds of modern people and shows how the most radical ideas of the era found their way into the High Enlightenment. The focus is on Europe, but the implications for the new American state are obvious, helping us over here sort out what is meant by the expression that the United States is a "product of the

This is one of the few books I read in grad school that I really feel I benefited from being exposed to. When I return to it, I am surprised by how rich and compelling it is, in spite of its length and density. Each time, I find new things to be fascinated by, as if it anticipates my growth and changing interests, and writes new chapters of itself in my absence.It is essentially an intellectual history of secular thought, answering the perplexing question: How did modern secular thought become

I will admit that this was a bit more than I wanted or needed and it took me forever to read, but it is a very detailed account of the early enlightenment and the struggle for supremicy between Spinoza, Newton, Wolf/Leibnitz, and the Cartesians.