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Article: Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2009
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Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752. By Jonathan I. Israel. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 983. $55.00.)
In this book, a sequel to his Radical Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2001), the author continues his impressively documented narrative of the controversies and polemics between the radical and moderate wings of the Enlightenment, taking the story to the embattled birth of the great Encyclopedie project in the mid-eighteenth century (a third volume, dealing with the second half of the eighteenth century, is yet to come).
As in the previous volume, Jonathan I. ...