Publication

2010 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiverevolutionmindra00isra
  • ISBN-139780691142005
  • ISBN-100691142009
  • LibraryThing8692491
  • Goodreads7140093
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Classifications

  • DDC321.8
  • LCCJA84.E9 I87 2010
  • LCCJA84.E9I87 2010

Description

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize. In A Revolution of the Mind, Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what we.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryDemocracyEnlightenmentPolitical scienceDemocracy, historyPolitical science, europeDemocracy -- History -- 18th century

Other Editions

  • A revolution of the mind: Radical Enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern democracyPrinceton University Press2010-01-01

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