The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-18

Description: The Enlightenment that Failed by Jonathan I. Israel Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole came to be almost defeated by ideas buttressing the interests of the privileged few. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankinds awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) innumerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. He argues that a populist, Robespierriste tendency, sharply at odds with democratic values and freedom of expression,gained an ideological advantage in France, and that the negative reaction this generally provoked caused a more general anti-Enlightenment reaction, a surging anti-intellectualism combined with forms of religious revival that largely undermined the longings of the deprived, underprivileged, and disadvantaged, and ended by helping, albeit often unwittingly, conservative anti-Enlightenment ideologies to dominate the scene. The Enlightenment that Failed relates boththe American and the French revolutions to the Enlightenment in a markedly different fashion from how this is usually done, showing how both great revolutions were fundamentally split between bitterly opposedand utterly incompatible ideological tendencies. Radical Enlightenment, which had been an effective ideological challenge to the prevailing monarchical-aristocratic status quo, was weakened, then almost entirely derailed and displaced from the Western consciousness, in the 1830s and 1840s by the rise of Marxism and other forms of socialism. Author Biography Jonathan Israel was born and educated in London, graduated at Cambridge, and gained his PhD at Oxford. He taught for thirty years in British universities (Newcastle, Hull, and University College London) before being appointed Professor of Modern History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He retired in 2016. Table of Contents 1: Introduction: Radical Enlightenment and ModernityPart I: The Origins of Democratic Modernity2: The Rise of Democratic Republicanism3: From Radical Renaissance to Radical Enlightenment4: From Radical Reformation to the Cercle Spinoziste5: English Deism and its pre-1700 Roots6: Great Moderates and the Temptations of the Radical: Montesquieu and the Forbidden7: DHolbach against Voltaire and Rousseau: a triangular battle of Political Thought Systems8: Revolution without Violence: The Nordic ModelPart II: Human Rights and Revolution (1770-1830)9: Parallel Revolutions: America and France (1774-1793)10: General Will and The Invention of Universal and Equal Human Rights (1750-1789)11: Emancipating Women: Marriage, Equality, and Female Citizenship (1775-1815)12: From Classical Economics to post-Classical redistributive Economics (1775-1820)13: Reforming Europes Law Codes14: Unity of Humanity: Race Theory and the Equality of Peoples15: Unity of Humanity: Property, Class, and the Emancipation of ManPart III: Revolution and Competing Revolutionary Ideologies (1789-1830)16: Robespierre anti-philosophe, Or, the Battle of Ideologies during the French Revolution17: The Swiss Revolution and the Hard Climb to Democratic Republicanism (1782-1848)18: The Belgian Revolution (1787-1794)19: Enlightening against Robespierre (and Napoleon): the Écoles centrales (1792-1804)20: Revolution and the Universities: Germanys Philosophy Wars (1780-1820)21: Radicalism and Repression in the Anglo-American World (1775-1815)22: The American Connection23: The Spanish Revolution (1808-1823)24: Black Emancipation, Universal Emancipation and the Haïtian Revolution (1775-1825)Part IV: The Enlightenment that Failed25: Reaction and Radicalism: Germany and the Low Countries (1814-1830)26: British Philosophical Radicalism (1814-1830)27: Failed Restoration in France (1814-1830)28: Bolívar and Spinoza29: Karl Marx and the Lefts Turn from Radical Enlightenment to Socialism (1838-1848)30: Conclusion: The Radical Enlightenment Thesis and Its Critics Review ...brilliant... * Stewart J. Brown, Intellectual History Review *It is a credit to Israels scholarship that the book is far broader than polemics ... he prose is precise throughout, and Israels commitment to intellectual history -- his conviction that ideas are primary movers of history -- is compelling * Luke Nicastro, The University Bookman * Long Description The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankinds awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) innumerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. He argues that a populist, Robespierriste tendency, sharply at odds with democratic values and freedom of expression,gained an ideological advantage in France, and that the negative reaction this generally provoked caused a more general anti-Enlightenment reaction, a surging anti-intellectualism combined with forms of religious revival that largely undermined the longings of the deprived, underprivileged, and disadvantaged, and ended by helping, albeit often unwittingly, conservative anti-Enlightenment ideologies to dominate the scene. The Enlightenment that Failed relates boththe American and the French revolutions to the Enlightenment in a markedly different fashion from how this is usually done, showing how both great revolutions were fundamentally split between bitterly opposedand utterly incompatible ideological tendencies. Radical Enlightenment, which had been an effective ideological challenge to the prevailing monarchical-aristocratic status quo, was weakened, then almost entirely derailed and displaced from the Western consciousness, in the 1830s and 1840s by the rise of Marxism and other forms of socialism. Review Quote "It is a credit to Israels scholarship that the book is far broader than polemics ... he prose is precise throughout, and Israels commitment to intellectual history -- his conviction that ideas are primary movers of history -- is compelling" -- Luke Nicastro, The University Bookman Feature Revises our understanding of the Enlightenment in terms of Radical versus Moderate EnlightenmentDemonstrates how ideas promoting the interest of society as a whole came to be almost defeated by ideas buttressing the interests of the privileged fewPresents a fundamentally new interpretation of the late Enlightenment and the revolutionary eraDraws new parallels between the Enlightenment and the Atlantic Revolutions of 1775-1820Shows how the Radical Enlightenment was largely displaced from the Western consciousness after 1820 Details ISBN0198738404 Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 0198738404 ISBN-13 9780198738404 Format Hardcover Author Jonathan I. Israel Publisher Oxford University Press Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830 Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Macquarie University, Australia Position Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities DEWEY 909.7 Publication Date 2019-11-28 Short Title The Enlightenment That Failed UK Release Date 2019-11-28 NZ Release Date 2019-11-28 Edited by Hope Ashiabor Birth 1930 Qualifications Ph.D. Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2019-11-27 Pages 1082 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123735664;

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