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A Revolution of the Mind
- Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
- De: Jonathan Israel
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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 Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed - far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize.
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- A Revolution of the Mind
- Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
- De: Jonathan Israel
- Narrado por: James Adams
Good book, annoying performance
Revisado: 06-03-18
Jonathan Israel is a leading expert on the enlightenment, and this book is a distillation of his vast work on the subject. As such it's a valuable source of insight, but the book is dogged down by poor editing and the author's sometimes eccentric style. On the first page, for example, we are presented with the claim that "Four out of six of the Enlightenment's philosophical founding figures – Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle –..." Who are the two others? We are never told. Most annoyingly, Israel has the habit of quoting lenghty passages in French without translation – a misfeature which is exacerbated by the narrator's ridicilously theatrical pronunciation. Recommended for the dedicated or masochists.
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