Showing Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel

Radical Enlightenment "The Radical Enlightenment" was a set of ideas which helped lay the foundations of the modern world on the basis of equality, democracy, secularism, and universality. This study by cultural historian, Jonathan Israel, shows how Spinoza and his thought set the intellectual current towards the political revolutions of the later 18th century. Full description