About this title: In this detailed survey, Jonathan Israel examines the genesis of modern thought, marked by its emphasis on democracy and equality, from the 17th- and 18th-century philosophies of Spinoza, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 9/12/2002
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Date Published: 2002
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Date Published: 2002
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2001
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Date Published: 2002
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Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2002
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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"Back in the day, you weren't a REAL philosopher unless you held illegal underground reading circles and risked being burned at the stake for reading Spinoza."
"The Enlightenment is the foundational source of Modernity, from capitalism (replacing feudalism) to individual freedoms (replacing patriarchy), as this book makes clear. It can be summed in two words: Question authority. That's why enemies of the Modern, from evangelicals to authoritanian political regimes, ridicule learning and seek to suppress it. Let's hope they never succeed!"
"This book is dedicated to three propositions: (1) There were two Enlightenments, one radical and the other moderate (2) the Radical branch does not have its origins in England (as we have all been taught in Philosophy 101 in the English-speaking world) (3) the Radical branch has its origin in Spinoza.
This is all ultimately debatable. It is all a matter of emphasis. How important was Hobbes on the continent vs. Spinoza? How important was Diderot vs. Rousseau for the French revolution? Recent scholarship has lionized Spinoza as the father of modernity at the expense of John Locke. One wonders if this isn't a case of academics needing something new and controversial to write about, rather than advancing scholarship.
My two criticisms are that Israel over-emphasizes the importance of La Mettrie and Diderot in their own time, and that the book is way too long with some unnecessary digressions into the doctrines of minor figures in the Enlightenment."
"this erudite but meandering and interminable volume makes, i think, three central claims. they are: (1) that something like a unified enlightenment (as opposed to the multiple "enlightenments" that historians talk about now) existed in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, (2) that there existed "radical" and "moderate" strains of enlightenment thought, and (3) that Spinoza was the most radical, the most comprehensive, and the most influential intellectual figure of this period.
(3) is the most interesting but, unfortunately, the most implausible claim of the bunch. Israel does demonstrate convincingly that Spinoza's texts were known and considered dangerous throughout Europe, but the same could be said of Hobbes, and Israel simply waves his hand at this rather obvious but potentially problematic alternative hypothesis.
Relatedly, Israel tends to conflate questions of philosophical comprehensiveness with questions of historical influence. He posits that Spinoza was the most comprehensive thinker of the 17th century (he is, i think, right about this, but he is right for the wrong reasons), and, on this basis, concludes that he was also the most influential. This inference is undefended, unwarranted, and somewhat implausible.
Though the scope of Israel's scholarship is impressive, one wonders whether depth was sacrificed at the altar of breadth in this work. His engagements with the central texts of the 17th century--Locke's in particular--are breezy, unsystematic, and even careless.
All that aside, it is a pretty damn good piece of scholarship, and should be read by anyone who cares about modern intellectual history."
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