I. The 'Radical Enlightenment'
1: Introduction
2: Government and Philosophy
3: Society, Institutions, Revolution
4: Women, Philosophy, and Sexuality
5: Censorship and Culture
6: Libraries and Enlightenment
7: The Learned Journals
II. The Rise of Philosophical Radicalism
8: Spinoza
9: Van den Enden: Philosophy, Democracy, and Egalitarianism
10: Radicalism and the People: The Brothers Koerbagh
11: Philosophy, the Interpreter of Scripture
12: Miracles Denied
13: Spinoza's System
14: Spinoza, Science, and the Scientists
15: Philosophy, Politics, and the Liberation of Man
16: Publishing a Banned Philosophy
17: The Spread of a Forbidden Movement
III. Europe and the 'New' Intellectual Controversies 1680-1720
18: Bayle and the 'Virtuous Atheist'
19: The Bredenburg Disputes
20: Fontenelle and the War of the Oracles
21: The Death of the Devil
22: Leenhof and the 'Universal Philosophical Religion'
23: The 'Nature of God' Controversy
IV. The Intellectual Counter-Offensive
24: New Theological Strategies
25: The Collapse of Cartesianism
26: Leibniz and the Radical Enlightenment
27: Anglomania: The 'Triumph' of Newton and Locke
28: The Intellectual Drama in Spain and Portugal
29: Germany and the Baltic: 'The 'War of the Philosophers'
V. The Clandestine Progress of the Radical Enlightenment
1680-1750
30: Boulainvilliers and the Rise of French
31: French Refugee Deists in Exile
32: The Spinozistic Novel in French
33: English Deism and Europe
34: Germany: The Radical Aufklaerung
35: The Radical Impact in Italy
36: The Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts
37: From La Mettrie to Diderot
38: Epilogue: Rousseau, Radicalism, Revolution
AHA Gershoy Prize 2001
Jonathan Israel is a professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Massive and brilliant book ... Israel displays a profound, and contagious, sympathy for the intellectual movement he describes ... Israel has given us a vast panorama of the unfolding of Enlightenment thought during the crucial century between 1650 and 1750 ... The book is a real tour de force ... magisterial. History Workshop Journal A brilliant achievement, piecing together some highly elusive strands of the early enlightenment in a way which not only makes compulsive reading, but is also bound to have a major and permanent impact on enlightenment scholarship as a whole. English Historical Review This book gives the early radical enlightenment a clarity and power which historians of the early modern period will find impossible to ignore. English Historical Review As a formidably well-researched history of radical thinking from the mid-seventeenth century through to the French Revolution, and of the scholars who confronted each other at the time in sometimes ferociously bitter disputes, this book has no rival. English Historical Review In an age of historical miniaturists, it is exhilarating to encounter a scholar who is willing to cover walls and ceilings with a magnificent sprawling historical fresco. Israel has put forward a Grand Historical Thesis of the sort that historians once revelled in, but that has largely gone out of style. He has done so, moreover, with panache and in detail, revealing a command of texts and archival documents, local milieux and international currents, that compels admiration Radical Enlightenment swarms with fascinating material of every sort, so rich and varied that no review can do it justice. Anthony Grafton, Times Literary Supplement Radical Enlightenment deserves to be widely read because it is an example of ground-breaking, vastly well-informed and thoroughly new history. David Horspool, The Guardian Jonathan Israel's ardour, erudition and willingness to challenge widely accepted notions make his book a great achievement - one that entitles him to the gratitude of the entire world of learning. Times Literary Supplement Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade. John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph Magnificent ... sumptuous in the energy, clarity, and of the breadth of its scholarship ... [A] masterpiece. LA Times Remarkable historical study ... the author succeeds in turning a mountain of evidence into crisp, fresh prose. Out of the Pen That Israel has taken so much learning and compressed it into such an informative and stimulating read is a remarkable achievement ... The book must be considered the standard by which future histories of philosophy will be measured. The Philosophers' Magazine
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