"Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment' comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that re-evaluate the characteristics, meaning and impact of the radical Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher Part I. The big picture -- "Radical...
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"Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment' comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that re-evaluate the characteristics, meaning and impact of the radical Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher Part I. The big picture -- "Radical Enlightenment" : a game-changing concept / Jonathan I. Israel -- The radical Enlightenment : a heavenly city with many mansions / Margaret C. Jacob -- Of radical and moderate Enlightenment / Harvey Chisick -- The emergence of the "radical Enlightenment" in humanist scholarship / Frederik Stjernfelt -- Part II. Origins and fate of the radical Enlightenment, ca. 1660-1720 -- Spinoza the radical / Nancy Levene -- Spinoza on natural inequality and the fiction of moral equality / Beth Lord -- John Toland's Origines judaicae : speaking for Spinoza? / Ian Leask -- Radical atheism : Jean Meslier in context / Charles Devellennes -- The waning of the radical Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic / Wiep van Bunge -- Part III. The radical Enlightenment in Europe and the New World after ca. 1720 -- Less radical Enlightenment : a Christian wing of the French Enlightenment / Eric Palmer -- Materialism at the University of Göttingen : between moderate and radical Enlightenment / Falk Wunderlich -- Radical Enlightenment and revolution in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Ultán Gillen -- De Sade : an heir to the radical Enlightenment? / Winfried Schröder -- Empathy, equality, and the radical Enlightenment / Devin Vartija -- The radical Enlightenment and movements for women's equality in Europe and the Americas (1715-1825) / Jennifer J. Davis