Steffen Ducheyne

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

"Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment' comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that re-evaluate the characteristics, meaning and impact of the radical Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138280045
• ISBN-10: 1138280046
• Artikelnr.: 45654722

Autorenporträt

Steffen Ducheyne is Research Professor at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of "The Main Business of Natural Philosophy": Isaac Newton's Natural-Philosophical Methodology (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Steffen Ducheyne
PART I THE BIG PICTURE
1. 'Radical Enlightenment' - A Game-Changing Concept
Jonathan I. Israel
2. The Radical Enlightenment: A Heavenly City with Many Mansions
Margaret C. Jacob
3. Of Radical and Moderate Enlightenment
Harvey Chisick
4. The Emergence of the 'Radical Enlightenment' in Humanist Scholarship
Frederik Stjernfelt
PART II ORIGINS AND FATE OF THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT, CA. 1660-1720
5. Spinoza the Radical
Nancy Levene
6. Spinoza on Natural Inequality and the Fiction of Moral Equality
Beth Lord
7. John Toland's Origines Judaicae: Speaking for Spinoza?
Ian Leask
8. Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context
Charles Devellennes
9. The Waning of the Radical Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic
Wiep van Bunge
PART III: THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD AFTER CA.
1720
10. Less Radical Enlightenment: A Christian Wing of the French
Enlightenment
Eric Palmer
11. Materialism at the University of Göttingen: Between Moderate and
Radical Enlightenment
Falk Wunderlich
12. Radical Enlightenment and Revolution in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Ultán Gillen
13. De Sade - An Heir to the Radical Enlightenment?
Winfried Schröder
14. Empathy, Equality, and the Radical Enlightenment
Devin Vartija
15. The Radical Enlightenment and Movements for Women's Equality in Europe
and the Americas (1715-1825)
Jennifer J. Davis
General Index