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 the Enlightenment's philosophica…
Fokus i denne bog er på den radikale oplysningstid, også kaldet den tidlige oplysningstid, som på mange punkter stod i opposition til de dele af strømningen, som kom til at tegne den "officielle" oplysning
Jonathan Israel, autor de la trilogía Radical Enlightment (2001), Enlightenment Contested (2006) y Democratic Enlightenment (2011), una monumental obra que ha revolucionado la interpretación de la Ilustración, nos ofrece en este libro una síntesis de sus ideas. En Una revolución…
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, 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 R…
Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, 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 Ri…
"Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, 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 …
"In 1763, the young James Boswell left Great Britain for a 'Grand Tour' of the Continent. The tour was a tradition among British and Scottish youths; by visiting the great historical sites, especially those of Roman and Greek antiquity, they would complete the studies they had b…
