I: Introductory ;Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age ;Philosophy and the Making of Modernity ;II: The Crisis of Religious Authority ;Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux ;Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern ;Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment ;Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines ;Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities ;Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and Religion ;III: Political Emancipation ;Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity' ;The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism ;Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic ;'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1689-1755 ;Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution' ;Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model' ;The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces ;IV: Intellectual Emancipation ;The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism ;The Recovery of Greek Thought ;The Rise of 'History of Philosophy' ;From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain ;Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science' ;V: The Party of Humanity ;The Problem of Equality ;Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women ;Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism ;Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other' ;Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy ;Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society? ;VI: Radical Philosophes ;The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques (1734) ;Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot ;Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie, antivoltairianisme 1733-1747 ;From Voltaire to Diderot ;The 'Unvirtuous Atheist' ;The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-1752 ;The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-1752 ;Postscript ;Bibliography ;Index
By: Jonathan I. Israel