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  • The Expanding Blaze

    How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise

    Edited by Jonathan Israel, Michael Silverthorne ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating the fallibility of both its authors and its interpreters. He argues that free enquiry is not only consistent with the security and prosperity of a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    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 longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Democratic Enlightenment

    Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the Enlightenment's philosophical revolution. This fact is uncontested - yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Ideas

    An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French RevolutionHistorians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    Given the huge advances achieved by research regarding many aspects of the Enlightenment over the past several decades there is certainly a crying need for a one-volume dictionary to serve as guide to the main Enlightenment writers, thinkers, publicists and educators, the Enlightenment’s key labels, conceptual terms, categories and currents of thought, and to the titles of the most important ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Three Critics of the Enlightenment

    Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is pleased to return to print, under one cover, Berlin's essays on these celebrated and captivating ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Revolution of the Mind, A

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Narrated by James Adams ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    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 longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed - far more so than most ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paradoxes of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought

    by Joaquín Abellán, Henri Krop, Gerardo López Sastre, Cyrus Masroori, Rolando Minuti, Concha Roldán, Luisa Simonutti, Jonathan Israel ...
    In today’s developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts and ideas that have enabled many of us to live in peace. However, their work was certainly not perfect. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God

    Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding

    by Maura Jane Farrelly, Matthew Holbreich, Peter McNamara, Carla Mulford, Vincent Philip Muñoz, Danilo Petranovich, Eran Shalev, Aristide Tessitore, Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Robert Faulkner, Jonathan Israel ...
    Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impacton the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness,and depth of that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the Americanfounding period with an interest in the influence of Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion,they have often assumed such ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    The Price of Inequality

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 4 min

    The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live."Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Party of One

    Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover

    by Michael Harris ...
    Narrated by Michael Putonnen ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 2 min

    A timely indictment of a prime minister determined to remake Canada.In Party of One, Investigative journalist Michael Harris gives us an intimate look at Stephen Harper, and draws a portrait of a Prime Minister whose policies and instincts, Harris believes, are a clear and present danger to Canada’s democracy. Fueled by the election victory of May 2011, unchecked by the opposition, the staggering ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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