The Enlightenment That Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

by Jonathan I. Israel

The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198738404
• ISBN13: 9780198738404
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 1082 Pages
• Weight: 3.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"