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Reassessing the radical Enlightenment /

"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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ducheyne, Steffen, Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Routledge, 2017.
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Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=8YwZDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=9781138280045&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijt56Pi4niAhVO8HMBHQ9EAqkQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The big picture
  • "Radical Enlightenment" : a game-changing concept / Jonathan I. Israel
  • The radical Enlightenment : a heavenly city with many mansions / Margaret C. Jacob
  • Of radical and moderate Enlightenment / Harvey Chisick
  • The emergence of the "radical Enlightenment" in humanist scholarship / Frederik Stjernfelt
  • Part II. Origins and fate of the radical Enlightenment, ca. 1660-1720
  • Spinoza the radical / Nancy Levene
  • Spinoza on natural inequality and the fiction of moral equality / Beth Lord
  • John Toland's Origines judaicae : speaking for Spinoza? / Ian Leask
  • Radical atheism : Jean Meslier in context / Charles Devellennes
  • 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
  • Less radical Enlightenment : a Christian wing of the French Enlightenment / Eric Palmer
  • Materialism at the University of Göttingen : between moderate and radical Enlightenment / Falk Wunderlich
  • Radical Enlightenment and revolution in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Ultán Gillen
  • De Sade : an heir to the radical Enlightenment? / Winfried Schröder
  • Empathy, equality, and the radical Enlightenment / Devin Vartija
  • The radical Enlightenment and movements for women's equality in Europe and the Americas (1715-1825) / Jennifer J. Davis.