Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 by Jonathan I. Israel

Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

Jonathan I. Israel

1088 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative slow-paced
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The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from ...

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