Reassessing the radical Enlightenment / edited by Steffen Ducheyne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ducheyne, Steffen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment.

Radicalism--History--18th century.

Radicalism.

Intellectual life--History--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Philosophy, Modern--18th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 318 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Re-assessing the radical Enlightenment

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment' comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that re-evaluate the characteristics, meaning and impact of the radical Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The radical Enlightenment : an introduction / Steffen Ducheyne

The Big Picture. "Radical Enlightenment" : a game-changing concept / Jonathan I. Israel

The radical Enlightenment : a heavenly city with many mansions / Margaret C. Jacob

Of radical and moderate Enlightenment / Harvey Chisick

The emergence of the "radical Enlightenment" in humanist scholarship / Frederik Stjernfelt

Origins and Fate of the Radical Enlightenment, ca. 1660-1720. Spinoza the radical / Nancy Levene

Spinoza on natural inequality and the fiction of moral equality / Beth Lord

John Toland's Origines judaicae : speaking for Spinoza? / Ian Leask

Radical atheism : Jean Meslier in context / Charles Devellennes

The waning of the radical Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic / Wiep van Bunge

The Radical Enlightenment in Europe and the New World after ca. 1720. Less radical Enlightenment : a Christian wing of the French Enlightenment / Eric Palmer

Materialism at the University of Göttingen : between moderate and radical Enlightenment / Falk Wunderlich

Radical Enlightenment and revolution in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Ultán Gillen

De Sade : an heir to the radical Enlightenment? / Winfried Schröder

Empathy, equality, and the radical Enlightenment / Devin Vartija

The radical Enlightenment and movements for women's equality in Europe and the Americas (1715-1825) / Jennifer J. Davis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472451682

1472451686

9781138280045

1138280046

OCLC:

954537302