Jonathan I Israel

Datos Biográficos

ID327430
NOMBREJonathan I Israel
NOMBRESJonathan I
APELLIDOIsrael
FIRMAISRAEL J I
AFILIACIONESUniversity College London
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS30
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1980
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • Rarities of These Lands

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2024

  • Pioneers of Capitalism

    Jonathan I IsraelARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2024

  • Enlightenment That Failed

    Jonathan I IsraelBOOKEnlightenment That Failed2019

    The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-18…

  • Spinoza and Spinozism in the Western Enlightenment

    Open AccessJonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelARTICLEAraucaria2018

    This article seeks to outline the main elements in the historiographical controversy over the significance of 'Spinozism' as an eighteenth-century Enlightenment category and the validity or otherwise of the concept of 'Radical Enlightenment' as well as the relationship between these two categories. Defining 'Radical Enlightenment' as the philosophical rejection of religious authority combined with a democratic tending system of social and politic…

  • The ‘War of the Encyclopédie’

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    This chapter argues that the first stage of the ‘guerre de l’Encyclopédie’, down to the autumn of 1752, has a crucial significance in both intellectual and wider social-cultural history. Historians have often noted that it was at this point that the lines of ideological confrontation in France were reconfigured in a new way and that the parti philosophique first acquired its public profile as a ‘sect’ or party within French society and cultural l…

  • The Recovery of Greek Thought

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    This chapter begins with a discussion of the Greek ‘revolution’ as being Man’s first great ‘enlightenment’ — the Presocratics’ discovery of philosophical argument and criticism. It focuses on Xenophanes of Colophon, one of the most vigorously debated of the Presocratics before 1750. The chapter then turns to 3rd-century bc philosopher Strato of Lampsacus, who is widely believed to be the ancient precursor of Spinoza.

  • From Voltaire to Diderot

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    This chapter argues that the authentically Newtonian inspiration of Voltaire's thought and his deep veneration of Locke reflected the main line of the French Enlightenment only briefly, as it developed in the 1730s down to the mid 1740s. Voltaire, furthermore, however brilliant and confrontational his writing, and however vast the impact of his caustic personality on his century, was a social and intellectual reformer in only a very few, restrict…

  • The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques (1734)

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    This chapter focuses on a neglected aspect of the French Enlightenment — the remarkably complex and far-reaching intellectual upheaval that occurred between the death of ‘Louis the great’, as he was then called, in 1715, and Voltaire’s emergence as the pre-eminent figure in the French intellectual arena in the later 1730s. In just a few years, from 1715, the closely supervised, rigid, cultural system enforced in France by an increasingly intolera…

  • Realigning the Parti philosophique

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    This chapter begins with a discussion of Voltaire's Enlightenment. The decisive period of Voltaire's formation as a philosopher was the years 1732–8 when he worked painstakingly to fashion a coherent system for himself and succeeded in reconfiguring, and briefly dominating, the French intellectual stage as a whole. By the mid 1730s, he could look forward to presiding over a wide-ranging programme of reform and renewal in French philosophy, scienc…

  • Men, Animals, Plants, and Fossils

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    This chapter focuses on Early Enlightenment French clandestine philosophical literature. The clandestine manuscripts exerted their greatest impact during the 1720s and 1730s, when two rival materialist solutions competed. On the one hand, some support was retained for an older conception of the soul as something consisting of invisible, superfine particles of matter, animating animals as well as men, and emanating, like fire or light, from heavie…

  • Enlightenment Contested

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelBOOKENLIGHTENMENT CONTESTED:…2006

    The author presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the 18th century, he returns to the original sources to offer a new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought. The author traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in t…

  • Fontenelle and the War of the Oracles

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERRadical Enlightenment2001

    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757), native of Rouen, nephew of Corneille, and star pupil of the Jesuits, was the first prominent high-society philosophe and general commentator on science, and the progress of the new learning, in France. Admired by Voltaire, and Diderot, upon both of whom his influence was considerable, he has invariably been reckoned a key precursor and pioneer of the French Enlightenment and one, moreover, who enjoyed …

  • The Learned Journals

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERRadical Enlightenment2001

    This chapter discusses how periodicals emerged as a powerful machine undermining traditional structures of authority, knowledge, and doctrine. Everywhere, awareness of new ideas and knowledge, new books, and debates had been enhanced and enriched. Through the journals, Europe had, for the first time, amalgamated into a single intellectual arena. Henceforth, debates, controversies, the reception of new books and theories and their evaluation, were…

  • From La Mettrie to Diderot

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERRadical Enlightenment2001

  • Government and Philosophy

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelCHAPTERRadical Enlightenment2001

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Jonathan I Israel, Jonathan IsraelBOOKRadical Enlightenment2001

    The Radical Enlightenment was a revolutionary set of ideas which helped lay the foundations of the modern world on the basis of equality, democracy, secular values, and universality. This controversial and original study by the internationally renowned cultural historian Jonathan I. Israel shows how Spinoza and his thought set the intellectual current towards the intellectual and political revolutions of the later eighteenth century

  • Radical Enlightenment

    Jonathan I IsraelBOOKRadical Enlightenment2001

    The Radical Enlightenment was a revolutionary set of ideas which helped lay the foundations of the modern world on the basis of equality, democracy, secular values, and universality. This controversial and original study by the internationally renowned cultural historian Jonathan I. Israel shows how Spinoza and his thought set the intellectual current towards the intellectual and political revolutions of the later eighteenth century

  • Conflicts of Empires

    Victor Enthoven, Jonathan I Israel et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1999

  • In and out of the Ghetto

    Open AccessChristof Mauch, R Po‐chia Hsia et al.BOOKIn and Out of the Ghetto1995

    During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …

  • Religion in the English Enlightenment

    Susan Rosa, Ole Peter Grell et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1994

  • Maritime Asia, 1500-1800

    John E Wills, James D Tracy et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1993Citada por: 17

  • Sceptics, Millenarians, and Jews

    Todd M Endelman, David S Katz et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1993

  • The Anglo-Dutch Moment

    James M Rosenheim, Jonathan I Israel et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1993

    List of plates List of illustrations List of abbreviations Editor's preface Foreword by the President of the British Academy General introduction Jonathan I. Israel Part I. The Glorious Revolution: 1. James II's Revolution: royal policies, 1686-92 J. R. Jones 2. The sensible revolution John Morrill 3. The Dutch role in the glorious revolution Jonathan I. Israel 4. Church and state reformed? the revolution of 1688-9 in Scotland Ian B. Cowan 5. The…

  • The Anglo-Dutch Moment

    Newton Key, Newton E Key et al.ARTICLEAlbion A Quarterly Journal…1992

  • From Persecution to Toleration

    Ole Peter Grell, Jonathan I Israel et al.BOOKFrom persecution to toleration1991