Democratic enlightenment : philosophy, revolution, and human rights 1750-1790 /

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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. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Israel, Jonathan, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
1648-1799
Enlightenment.
Democracy > History.
Philosophy, Modern > 18th century.
Intellectual life > History > 18th century.
Siècle des Lumières.
Philosophie > 18e siècle.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Democracy
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Philosophy, Modern
Politics and government
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Democratisering.
Franse Revolutie.
Upplysningen.
Europe > History > 1648-1789.
Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Europe > Politics and government > 1648-1789.
Europe > Histoire > 1648-1789.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Europe > Politique et gouvernement > 1648-1789.
Europe
Europa (geografie)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1: The radical challenge. Nature and providence: earthquakes and the human condition
  • The Encyclopédie suppressed (1752-1760)
  • Rousseau against the Philosophes
  • Voltaire, enlightenment, and the European courts
  • Anti-philosophes
  • Central Europe: Aufklärung divided
  • pt. 2: Rationalizing the Ancien Régime. Hume, scepticism, and moderation
  • Scottish enlightenment and man's 'progress'
  • Enlightened despotism
  • Aufklärung and the fracturing of German protestant culture
  • Catholic enlightenment: the papacy's retreat
  • Society and the rise of the Italian revolutionary enlightenment
  • Spain and the challenge of reform
  • pt. 3: Europe and the remaking of the world. The Histoire philosophique, or colonialism overturned
  • The American revolution
  • Europe and the Amerindians
  • Philosophy and revolt in Ibero-America (1765-1792)
  • Commercial despotism: Dutch colonialism in Asia
  • China, Japan, and the West
  • India and the two enlightenments
  • Russia's Greeks, Poles, and Serfs
  • pt. 4: Spinoza controversies in the later enlightenment. Rousseau, Spinoza, and the 'general will'
  • Radical breakthrough
  • Pantheismusstreit (1780-1787)
  • Kant and the radical challenge
  • Goethe, Schiller, and the new 'Dutch Revolt' against Spain
  • pt. 5: Revolution. 1788-1789: the 'general revolution' begins
  • The diffusion
  • 'Philosophy' as a maker of revolutions
  • Aufklärung and the secret societies (1776-1792)
  • Small-state revolutions in the 1780s
  • The Dutch democratic revolution of the 1780s
  • The French revolution: from 'philosophy' to basic human rights (1788-1790)
  • Epilogue: 1789 as an intellectual revolution.

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