Princeton University Press, Date: 2009-10-26. Hardcover. Good. 2009. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691142009 9780691142005 [US]

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Date: 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 276 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Owner's name and blind stamp on front end paper. Very good dust jacket. 2009. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691142009 9780691142005 [US]

ISBN10: 0691142009, ISBN13: 9780691142005, [publisher: Princeton University Press, United States, New Jersey] Softcover Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, 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 historians have been willing to recognize. In "A Revolution of the Mind", Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what were the least respectable strata of Enlightenment thought - what he calls the Radical Enlightenment. Originating as a clandestine movement of ideas that was almost entirely hidden from public view during its earliest phase, the Radical Enlightenment matured in opposition to the moderate mainstream Enlightenment dominant in Europe and America in the eighteenth century. During the revolutionary decades of the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s, the Radical Enlightenment burst into the open, only to provoke a long and bitter backlash. "A Revolution of the Mind" shows that this vigorous opposition was mainly due to the powerful impulses in society to defend the principles of monarchy, aristocracy, empire, and racial hierarchy - principles linked to ...