The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1750
Subtitle: Selected Papers of a Conference, Held at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel, 22-23 March 2001 (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789004135871
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; Congresses; Netherlands; History: World; Europe; Interior Design - General; Western Europe - Benelux; 18th century; Europe - Scandinavia; 1648-1795; 17th century; History; Intellectual life
Description: "This book contains twelve essays by prominent historians from the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States on the early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic. In the wake of the increased awareness of the importance of this particular period for the European Enlightenment as a whole, they focus on Cartesianism, Spinozism and Empiricism, the three main schools of thought that made up its philosophical profile. The first part of the book highlights the academic infrastructure of the Dutch Republic and the theological response to the Radical Enlightenment. The second and third parts concentrate on the philosophical and the scientific developments in the Dutch Republic from 1650 to 1750. The final part of this book deals with the international proliferation of the Dutch Radical Enlightenment and with the way in which its main protagonists have been ignored by Dutch historiography."--BOOK JACKET.