Radical enlightenment : philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750 /

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...

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Philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750
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Israel, Jonathan (autor)
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
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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 philosophies, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, slavery, andecclesiastical authority, as well as man's asendancy over woman and theology's domination over education and study, substi
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1 online resource (5870 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780191591808
0191591807
9781280758713
1280758716
9780191676970
0191676977
9780191622878
0191622877
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