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Israel, Jonathan. A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy.(Brief article)(Book review)
Israel, Jonathan. A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy. Princeton Univ. 2010. 296p. index. ISBN 978-0-69114200-5. $26.95. HIST
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In this sharply written synthesis, Israel (modern history, Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton) deftly traces the intellectual development of modern democratic thought from its origins in the philosophies of Spinoza and Bayle to the Atlantic revolutionary movements of the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s. Central to Israel's cerebral argument, also put forward in his two previous monumental works, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 …
