De Radicale Verlichting opnieuw bekeken

Eind vorige maand, d.w.z. een week geleden, verscheen het boek waarover ik een jaar geleden [blog van17-2-2016] mij afvroeg “Wordt het nog wat met The Ashgate / Routledge Companion to the Radical Enlightenment?”

Een tweet bracht mij ervan op de hoogte, waarna ik de tweet van de uitgever zag en een tweet van een van de auteurs van

Steffen Ducheyne (ed.), Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment. Routledge, 21-2-2017 n- books.google [Paperback: 9781138280045 £29.99]

 

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars. The collection re-evaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning England, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, France, Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts, such as Spinoza and his Tractus theologico-politicus, the authors discuss many less well-known figures and debates from the period. Divided into three parts, this book:
* Considers the Radical Enlightenment movement as a whole, including its defining features and characteristics and the history of the term itself.
* Traces the origins and events of the Radical Enlightenment, including in-depth analyses of key figures including Spinoza, Toland, Meslier, and d'Holbach.
* Examines the outcomes and consequences of the Radical Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas in the eighteenth century. Chapters in this section examine later figures whose ideas can be traced to the Radical Enlightenment, and examine the role of the period in the emergence of egalitarianism. This collection of essays is the first stand-alone collection of studies in English on the Radical Enlightenment. It is a timely and comprehensive overview of current research in the field which also presents new studies and research on the Radical Enlightenment.

De TOC geeft een gedetailleerder beeld:

Table of Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Introduction, Steffen Ducheyne [academia.edu]

PART I THE BIG PICTURE

1. ‘Radical Enlightenment’ – A Game-Changing Concept, Jonathan I. Israel

2. The Radical Enlightenment: A Heavenly City with Many Mansions, Margaret C. Jacob

3. Of Radical and Moderate Enlightenment, Harvey Chisick

4. The Emergence of the ‘Radical Enlightenment’ in Humanist Scholarship, Frederik Stjernfelt

PART II ORIGINS AND FATE OF THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT, CA. 1660–1720

5. Spinoza the Radical, Nancy Levene

6. Spinoza on Natural Inequality and the Fiction of Moral Equality, Beth Lord

7. John Toland’s Origines Judaicae: Speaking for Spinoza? Ian Leask

8. Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context, Charles Devellennes

9. 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

10. Less Radical Enlightenment: A Christian Wing of the French Enlightenment, Eric Palmer

11. Materialism at the University of Göttingen: Between Moderate and Radical Enlightenment, Falk Wunderlich

12. Radical Enlightenment and Revolution in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Ultán Gillen

13. De Sade – An Heir to the Radical Enlightenment? Winfried Schröder

14. Empathy, Equality, and the Radical Enlightenment, Devin Vartija

15. The Radical Enlightenment and Movements for Women’s Equality in Europe and the Americas (1715–1825), Jennifer J. Davis

General Index

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