Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 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,…
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 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…