This book got a very positive review in The Americas, v. 33 #3. The reviewer, Francisco Morales, noted that this was a period that had previously neglected by historians, and that Israel was making a new argument, that this was a period when the bureaucracy and colonists struggled. The author did a great deal of primary research for this thesis.

Race, class, and politics in colonial Mexico, 1610-1670 (Oxford historical monographs)

Jonathan I. Israel

Oxford University Press

That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"-in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas-into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."

Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790

History

Europe

This book explores European Enlightenment as one cultural and intellectual movement highly integrated, that y worries about not only the intellectual problems, but with frequency by the same books and perceptions across the globe, from Portugal to Russia from Ireland to Sicily. This book shows that radical Enlightenment, far from being a success, is a key and integral part of the broader movement and had more cohesion internationally that the dominant trend of Enlightenment

La ilustración radical. La filosofía y la construcción de la modernidad 1650-1750 (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

De Republiek 1477-1806

Wijnen, Uitgeverij Van

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