Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Craig - GoodreadsA reference book disguised as a history book. Good if you are a scholar researching the Enlightenment, but terrible for the general reader. I don't accept the author's concept of "radical", even in ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Michael - GoodreadsThis is one of the few books I read in grad school that I really feel I benefited from being exposed to. When I return to it, I am surprised by how rich and compelling it is, in spite of its length ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Thore Husfeldt - GoodreadsI abandoned this book after a few hundred pages. It makes me increasingly angry. It's also unenlightening. How can one write a book about the enlightenment that is so unwilling to enlighten? I'm ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Willem - GoodreadsMy 'bible'. Great read, great reread, great reference book, great to leaf through on a rainy day. In short: great. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsIn the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Jason - GoodreadsA sturdy and vigorous rimming of Baruch "B-Bag" Spinoza who, according to Israel, was the centerfold for a 1650-1750 orgiastic Radical Enlightenment which shattered the European mindset. An immense ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Justin - GoodreadsA strong thesis from Israel - that the celebrated thinkers in the post-Renaissance western world are all essentially the intellectual progeny of Spinoza - but one which is remarkably researched and ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Mia - GoodreadsThe authoritative work on the Enlightenment. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Craig J. - GoodreadsRadical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel (2002) Volledige recensie lezen
Review: Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Gebruikersrecensie - Chris - GoodreadsAppearing in 2001, and weighing in at over 800 pages, this is the first of a projected three volumes on the Enlightenment. In this first volume, Israel constructs the basic argument that is ... Volledige recensie lezen
