{"product_id":"enlightenment-contested-philosophy-modernity-and-the-emancipation-of-man-16701752-9780199541522","title":"Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy  Modernity  and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment   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.  Israel 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.  A work of dazzling and highly accessible scholarship  Enlightenment Contested will be the definitive reference point for historians  philosophers  and anyone engaged with this fascinating period of human development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651924582453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0199541523","price":66.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199541522.jpg?v=1781845565","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/enlightenment-contested-philosophy-modernity-and-the-emancipation-of-man-16701752-9780199541522","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}