Jonathan Israel: 10 books
Democratic Enlightenment
Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This...
The Expanding Blaze
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas
The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics,...
A Revolution of the Mind
Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these...
by Joaquín Abellán, Jonathan Israel, Henri Krop
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
In today’s developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts...
Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God
Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This volume, with contributions from scholars in political science, literature, and philosophy, examines the mutual influence of reason and religion at the time of the American Founding—especially in the writings and speeches of critical figures in that period, such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,...
Enlightenment Contested
Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
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 the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking...
Beyond Imported Magic
Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
Radical Enlightenment
Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2002
Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the...
Freedom of Speech
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive...