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Jonathan I. Israel

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Born: January 25 1946

Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jews. Israel was appointed as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, in January 2001. He was previously Professor of Dutch History and Institutions at the University of London.

In recent years, Israel has focused his attention on a multi-volume history of the Age of Enlightenment. He contrasts two camps. The "radical Enlightenment" founded on a rationalist materialism first articulated by Spinoza. Standing in opposition was a "moderate Enlightenment" which he sees as profoundly weakened by its belief in God. In Israel’s highly controversial interpretation, the radical Enlightenment is the main source of the modern idea of freedom. He contends that the moderate Enlightenment, including Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, made no real contribution to the campaign against superstition and ignorance.

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Jonathan I. Israel

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Books from Jonathan I. Israel

Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806

A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

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

Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

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

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

European Jewry In The Age Of Mercantilism 1550-1750

Dutch Primacy in World Trade 1585-1740

The Enlightenment That Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

Razas, Clases Sociales y Vida Politica en el Mexico Colonial, 1610-1670

La sombra de la leyenda negra

The Expansion of Tolerance: Religion in Dutch Brazil (1624-1654)

Det lange lys - 2000-tals spørgsmål, 1700-tals svar

Dutch Jewry: Its History and Secular Culture (1500-2000)

The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606-1661

Idées révolutionnaires : une histoire intellectuelle de la Révolution française

Spinoza, Life and Legacy

美国独立70年：1775-1848

法国大革命思想史：从《人的权利》到罗伯斯庇尔的革命观念