Format:
Online-Ressource (xxiv, 983 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0199279225
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9780199279227
Content:
The first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel now focuses on the first half of the eighteenth century. He traces to their roots the core principles of Western modernity: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. - ;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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [872]-953) and index
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Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; Abbreviations of Library and Archive Locations; Other Abbreviations; PART I: INTRODUCTORY; PART II: THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY; PART III: POLITICAL EMANCIPATION; PART IV: INTELLECTUAL EMANCIPATION; PART V: THE PARTY OF HUMANITY; PART VI: RADICAL PHILOSOPHES; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199279227
Additional Edition:
Print version Enlightenment Contested : Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Language:
English
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