TY  - BOOK
AU  - Israel,Jonathan Irvine
TI  - A revolution of the mind: Radical Enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern democracy 
SN  - 9780691152608
AV  - JA 84 I85r 2010
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Ciencia política
KW  - Historia
KW  - Europa
KW  - Siglo XVIII
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Ilustración
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democracia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world -- Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift -- The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics -- The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace" -- Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict -- Voltaire versus Spinoza : the Enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems -- Conclusion
N2  - Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. This book deals with this topic
ER  -