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  • Audiobook

    Revolution of the Mind, A

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    Narrated by James Adams ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed - far more so than most ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Revolutionary Ideas

    An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

    How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French RevolutionHistorians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Expanding Blaze

    How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

    A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Enlightenment that Failed

    Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

    The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx

    The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights

    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Defines how Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment influenced later European revolutionary movementsIn the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute, intellectually driven, and philosophical revolutionaries, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots of their alienation from existing society and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Enlightenment that Failed

    Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    60 hours 58 min

    The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enlightenment Contested

    Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

    Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Spinoza, Life and Legacy

    A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if ... Read more

    $30.59 USD