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The Enlightenment that failed : ideas, revolution, and democratic defeat, 1748-1830


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Explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. Radical Enlightenment, which had been an effective ideological challenge to the prevailing monarchical-aristocratic status quo, was weakened, then almost entirely derailed and displaced from the Western consciousness.

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Introduction: Radical enlightenment and "modernity" (1650-1850)

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The end of the Enlightenment?

The concept "Radical Enlightenment"

The origins of democratic modernity

The rise of democratic republicanism

England and the "Dutch Way" (1688-1720)

A notable public controversy (1706-1710)

Spinoza Reviv'd and the cercle spinoziste


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