{"product_id":"enlightenment-contested-jonathan-i-israel-9780199541522","title":"Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752","description":"Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling \u003cem\u003eRadical Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsrael traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and \"materialist\" radical fringe. He also contends that the supposedly separate French, British, German, Dutch, and Italian enlightenments interacted to such a degree that their study in isolation gives a hopelessly distorted picture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of dazzling and highly accessible scholarship, \u003cem\u003eEnlightenment Contested\u003c\/em\u003e will be the definitive reference point for historians, philosophers, and anyone engaged with this fascinating period of human development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan I. Israel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199541523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199541522\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 2.00d","brand":"Jonathan I. Israel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173023969535,"sku":"9780199541522","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8f5f578-766f-45e2-a54a-3eb61c10a703.jpg?v=1715467849","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enlightenment-contested-jonathan-i-israel-9780199541522","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}