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A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan IsraelPublish date:2011-09-26Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691152608ISBN-10:691152608UPC:9780691152608Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Political Ideologies, EuropeBook Topic:DemocracySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCJ72A6MGM

A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

A leading historian reveals the radical origins of humanity's most cherished secular values

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691152608ISBN-10:691152608UPC:9780691152608Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Political Ideologies, EuropeBook Topic:DemocracySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCJ72A6MGM
Jonathan Israel is professor of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is in the process of finishing a monumental three-volume history of the Radical Enlightenment, the first two volumes of which, Radical Enlightenment and Enlightenment Contested, have already been published.
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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