Title:
A revolution of the mind : Radical Enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern democracy / Jonathan Israel.
Author:
Israel, Jonathan I. (Jonathan Irvine), 1946-
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Call Number:
JA84 .E9 I87 2010
ISBN:
9780691142005
Physical Description:
xiv, 276 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world -- Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift -- The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics -- The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace" -- Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict -- Voltaire versus Spinoza : the Enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems -- Conclusion.
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