The Radical Enlightenment
Subtitle: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans
By: Margaret C. Jacob.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Publisher: Cornerstone Book
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lafayette, LA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781887560740
Subjects: Freemasons -- History; Enlightenment; Pantheism -- History; Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century; Europe -- Civilization -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Science and the philosophical origins of the Radical Enlightenment; title: The legacy of the English revolution; title: The Newtonian Enlightenment and its critics; title: The origins of European freemasonry; title: Radical Whigs, masons and Knights of Jubilation; title: The social world of the Radical Enlightenment; title: Pantheistic religion, revolution and the new science; title: Epilogue : new paths to the high Enlightenment; title: Appendix.