Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

by Jonathan I. Israel

Book Overview

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 thought.

Israel traces many of the core principles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199541523
• ISBN13: 9780199541522
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 1024 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"