Chisick, Harvey:
Interpreting the Enlightenment

In: The European Legacy : Toward New Paradigms 3 (2008), 35-57

Mention of Spinoza: Ja/Yes

Literature type: Reviews
Language: English
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Reception history, Materialism / Marxism
Subject (individuals): Israel, Jonathan I.

Reviews: Israel, Jonathan I.: Enlightenment Contested : Philosophy, Modernty, and Emancipation of Man 1670-1752. - Oxford [e.a.] : Oxford University press, 2006. - XXIV, 989 pp.

English commentary: "This article ... considers whether, as Israel claims, the core of the Enlightenment is a materialistic monist metaphysics first fully articulated by Spinoza, and whether it is convincing to make materialism and atheism the main criterion of Enlightenment thought." (from the abstract)URL: http://h-fr

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