The Enlightenment That Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

ISBN-13: 9780198738404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 1088 str.

Jonathan I. Israel

Opis

Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole came to be almost defeated by ideas buttressing the interests of the privileged few.

Recenzje

...brilliant... Stewart J. Brown, Intellectual History Review

O autorze

Jonathan Israel was born and educated in London, graduated at Cambridge, and gained his PhD at Oxford. He taught for thirty years in British universities (Newcastle, Hull, and University College London) before being appointed Professor of Modern History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He retired in 2016.