Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
by Jonathan I. Israel
Rating
LanguageEnglish
Total Pages834 pages
ISBN
9780199254569
Published
2001
Description
In the wake of the scientific revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the phi...In the wake of the scientific revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers, including voltaire, diderot, and rousseau.