Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan I. Israel

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre

Jonathan I. Israel

870 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolut...

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