I bumped into Jonathan Israel in a footnote from a book by Justin Smith about how race was “invented” in the early modern period, and grounded in the insertion into nature of human beings in our philosophical understanding of ourselves.
This happens to also be the moment of the Radical Enlightenment: departing from Cartesian dualism, the Radical Enlightenment collapses our understanding of the world into one material substance… and from there, the old order crumbled. Jonathan Israel writes for the well-versed layman and the academic scholar. He expects you to know most of the characters he introduces, their key ideas, as well as the historical period they operated in. A smackering of French and Latin are also helpful (as he does not consistently translate his quotations). It’s been a great journey googling and going down all sorts of new rabbits holes. He takes the reader through each step of the Radical Enlightenment, culminating in Spinoza and Spinoza’s system and it’s implications for the religious and political establishment (devastating). One learns along the way a lot about the underground book trade and the cat and mouse between philosophers, printers, and the police/inquisition.
I’m halfway through the book and love every page. The unapologetic and flaming narrative is a joy to read and witness. It’s putting all those who dared to think clearly and dared to imagine freedom, autonomy, and truth that so touches me. It’s a magnificent endeavor and I am so thankful that Israel has written his 4 part magnum opus on the Radical Enlightenment and it’s legacy. I now ordered all 4 books and look forward to at least a year’s worth of great reading.
If like me, you always wondered how the Enlightenment that culminated in the American and French Revolutions could possibly have ended in the Terror and Napoleon in France, and how those strong rays became obscured in the 19th and 20th centuries, this is the place to start your reading. I’m excited about what I will learn. Although I have read much of the original texts of the philosophers themselves (esp. Spinoza), Israel has put everything together in a very holistic, coherent, and exciting way so that it reads like a thriller or a crime novel.
A must read for anyone interested in the history of ideas.
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Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 ペーパーバック – イラスト付き, 2002/9/12
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Jonathan I. Israel
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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, and ecclesiastical authority, as well as man's asendancy over woman and theology's domination over education and study, substituting the modern principles of equality, democracy, and universality, the Radical Enlightenment played a crucially important part. Despite the present-day interest in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment have been astonishingly little studied, doubtless largely because if its very wide international sweep and the obvious difficulties of fitting it into the restrictive conventions of 'national history' which until recently tended to dominate all historiography. The greatest obstacle to the Radical Enlightenment finding its proper place in modern historical writing is simply that it was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time. In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettrie and Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.
- 本の長さ810ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Oxford Univ Pr
- 発売日2002/9/12
- 寸法23.32 x 16.05 x 4.75 cm
- ISBN-100199254567
- ISBN-13978-0199254569
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The tributes which Israel has received for Radical Enlightenment are thoroughly merited; this book will become a modern classic upon the subject. ― David J. Sturdy, Cultural and Social History 2004-2006
Deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history ― David Horspool, The Guardian
The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway ... Five years from now, our views of the Enlightenment will have been enormously influenced by Israel. ― Peter Watson, New Statesman
There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it. ― A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend
Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of truly great historical works of the decade. ― John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
We have gained a much more detailed and fine-grained view of the sheer diversity and intellectual creativity not just amongst those who may have been influenced by Spinoza, but also amongst their critics, and those who may be deemed part of either the moderate Enlightenment or even a Counter-Enlightenment. ― Professor Thomas Munck, Reviews in History
Deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history ― David Horspool, The Guardian
The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway ... Five years from now, our views of the Enlightenment will have been enormously influenced by Israel. ― Peter Watson, New Statesman
There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it. ― A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend
Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of truly great historical works of the decade. ― John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
We have gained a much more detailed and fine-grained view of the sheer diversity and intellectual creativity not just amongst those who may have been influenced by Spinoza, but also amongst their critics, and those who may be deemed part of either the moderate Enlightenment or even a Counter-Enlightenment. ― Professor Thomas Munck, Reviews in History
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Jonathan Israel is a professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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- 出版社 : Oxford Univ Pr; Illustrated版 (2002/9/12)
- 発売日 : 2002/9/12
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 810ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0199254567
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199254569
- 寸法 : 23.32 x 16.05 x 4.75 cm
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"Radical Enlightenment" is one of the great historical works published in recent years, and should be essential reading for anyone interested in early modern European history, European intellectual history, or the Enlightenment, generally. Focusing chiefly on northern Europe and the impact of Spinoza on Western thought, the author ties together the key and not so key philosophical debates of the Radical Enlightenment from Hobbes and Descartes to the French Revolution, while also linking these to the rise of great libraries, the decline of witchcraft trials, the emergence of republicanism, the covert dissemination of clandestine literature, and gradual evolution of other issues that I had not considered directly linked to the spread of Enlightenment philosophies. It's not light reading - debates on mind and matter, or the impact of Deism on 17th Century Christianity, for instance, bear re-study - but the author has a lively style that makes this text a page-turner. The only irritant - and it's a minor one - is Dr. Israel's assumption that the reader speaks French; the text is shot through with quotations in that language, often several per page, and I sometimes felt I missed key points by having to skip over so many passages. Still, the French is usually close enough to English to get the general thrust of the sentence, but it would be useful if the next edition offered at least occasional translations.
This is a great book on a really fascinating topic. Buy it and read it.
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