Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

by Jonathan I. Israel

Book Overview

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. The Radical Enlightenment played a part in this revolutionary process, which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199254567
• ISBN13: 9780199254569
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 866 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"