A revolution of the mind : Radical Enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern democracy / Jonathan Israel.
By: Israel, Jonathan I. (Jonathan Irvine)
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BookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010Description: xiv, 276 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780691142005 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0691142009 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Political science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Enlightenment | Democracy -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 321.8
Contents:
Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world -- Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift -- The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics -- The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace" -- Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict -- Voltaire versus Spinoza : the Enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world -- Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift -- The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics -- The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace" -- Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict -- Voltaire versus Spinoza : the Enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems -- Conclusion.
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