Radical Enlightenment
Subtitle: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: March 29, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 809
ISBN-13: 9780198206088
Description: The Radical Enlightenment was a revolutionary set of ideas which helped lay the foundations of the modern world on the basis of equality, democracy, secular values, and universality. This controversial and original study by the internationally renowned cultural historian Jonathan I. Israel shows how Spinoza and his thought set the intellectual current towards the intellectual and political revolutions of the later eighteenth century.