Enlightenment Contested

De Ville, J. R./Jacobs, Frans C. L. M./Maris, Cees W. Law, Order and Freedom A Historical Introduction to Legal Philosophy, SPRINGER NETHERLANDS, 071 ISBN: 9400714564
The central question in legal philosophy is the relationship between law and morality. The legal systems of many countries around the world have been influenced by the principles of the Enlightenment: freedom, equality and fraternity. The position is similar in relation to the accompanying state ideal of the democratic constitutional state as well as the notion of a welfare state. The foundation of these principles lies in the ideal of individual autonomy. The law must in this view guarantee a social order which secures the equal freedom of all. This freedom is moreover fundamental because in modern pluralistic societies a great diversity of views exist concerning the appropriate way of life. This freedom ideal is however also strongly contested. In Law, Order and Freedom, a historical overview is given pertaining to the question of the extent to which the modern Enlightenment values can serve as the universal foundation of law and society.

NEUBUCH! 2011. 500 p. 235 mm 235 mm x 155 mm; Law and Philosophy Library Vol.94

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Israel, Jonathan I. Enlightenment contested : philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man, 1670-1752. ISBN: 0199279225
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Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, c2006. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xxiv, 983 pp. Ills. Contents : Pt. I: Introductory. Early enlightenment, revolution, and the modern age. Ancien Regime and Revolution ; Historians and the writing of "intellectual history" ; L'Esprit philosophique --Philosophy and the making of modernity. Spinoza and Spinozism in the radical enlightenment ; Locke, Hume, and the making of modernity -- pt. II: The crisis of religious authority. Reason and faith: Bayle versus the Rationaux. Europe's religious crisis ; Consensus gentium and the Philosophes ; Voltaire and the eclipse of Bayle -- Demolishing priesthood, ancient and modern -- Socinianism and the social, psychological, and cultural roots of Enlightenment -- Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: a contest of three toleration doctrines. Toleration from Locke to Barbeyrac ; Bayle's freedom of conscience ; Spinoza's liberty of thought and expression -- Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, society, and the universities. The problem of 'Atheism' ; Academic disputations and the making of German radical thought ; An alternative route? Johann Lorenz Schmidt and 'Left' Wolffian radicalism ; Natural theology, natural law, and the radical challenge -- Newtonianism and anti-Newtonianism in the early Enlightenment: science, philosophy, and religion. English physico-theology ; From's-Gravesande to d'Alembert (1720-1750) -- pt. III: Political emancipation. Anti-Hobbesianism and the making of 'modernity' -- The origins of modern democratic republicanism. Classical republicanism versus democratic republicanism ; Democracy in radical thought -- Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: secular monarchy versus the aristocratic republic. Bayle's politics ; Early Enlightenment French political thought ; The ideal of mixed monarchy -- 'Enlightened despotism': autocracy, faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (1689-1755) Peter the Great's 'revolution' (1689-1725) ; Europe and the Russian Enlightenment (1725-1755) ; Locke, Newton, and Leibniz in the Greek cultural diaspora -- Popular sovereignty, resistance, and the 'right to revolution' -- Anglomania, Anglicisme, and the 'British model'. -- English deism and the recoil from radicalism ; French Anglicisme ; Anglicisme and anti-anglicisme in the mid eighteenth century -- The triumph of the 'moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces. The defeat of Dutch radical thought: the social context ; Intellectual realignment within the Huguenot diaspora ; The Orangist restoration (1747-1751) pt. IV: Intellectual emancipation. The overthrow of humanist criticism. Ars critica ; Secularization of the sacred ; Man and myth -- The recovery of Greek thought ; 'Rationalizing the gods': disputing Xenophanes ; Strato, Spinoza, and the Philosophes ; Spinozism: a reworking of Greek Stoicism? -- The rise of 'history of philosophy'. Pre-Enlightenment 'history of philosophy' ; German eclecticism and the rise of a new discipline ; 'Radical Renaissance' --From 'history of philosophy' to history of l'Esprit humain. Fontenelle, Boulainvilliers, and 'l'histoire de l'esprit humain' ; Diderot and the history of human thought -- Italy, the two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'new science'. Italy embraces the mainstream Enlightenment ; Vico's 'Divine providence' ; A restored Italo-Greek wisdom? -- pt. V: The party of humanity. The problem of equality. Enlightenment and basic equality ; Aristocracy, radical thought, and educational reform -- Sex, marriage, and the equality of women. Cartesianism and female equality ; Marriage, chastity, and prostitution ; The erotic emancipation of woman, and man --Race, radical thought, and the advent of anti-colonialism. Enlightenment against empire ; Slavery and the early Enlightenment ; Empire and national identity -- Rethinking Islam: philosophy and the 'other'. Islam and toleration ; Bayle and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) ; Ibn Tufayl and the hidden wisdom of the East ; The clandestine 'Enlightenment' of the Zindikites --Spinoza, Confucius, and classical Chinese philosophy. China and Spinozismus ante Spinozam ; Leibniz, Wolff, and Chinese prisca theologia ; Voltaire, Montesquieu, and China -- Is religion needed for a well-ordered society? Separating morality from theology ; 'Moderate' Enlightenment deist morality ; Radical thought and the construction of a secular morality --Pt. VI: Radical Philosophes. The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques (1734). The post-1715 reaction to absolutism ; The materialist challenge ; Clandestinity -- Men, animals, plants, and fossils: French Hylozoic Materialisme before Diderot -- Realigning the Parti philosophique: Voltaire, Voltairianisme, Antivoltairianisme (1732-1745). Voltaire's Enlightenment ; The defeat of Voltaire and the French 'Newtonians' ; Breakdown of the Lockean-Newtonian synthesis -- From Voltaire to Diderot -- The 'unvirtuous atheist'. The 'Affaire La Mettrie' (1745-1752) ; Atheistic amoralism -- The Parti philosophique embraces the radical Enlightenment. Radicalization of the Diderot circle ; The 'quarrel' of the Esprit des lois (1748-1752) -- The 'war of the Encyclopedie': the first stage (1745-1752) -- Postscript. ISBN 0199279225

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LUCKHURST, MARY. Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre.

New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Illustrated. Paperback. 8vo. XIII, 296 pp. Index. (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre). (A fine copy!). Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon. (booknr: 40002)

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NIEUWENTYT, Bernard. Gronden van zekerheid of de regte betoogwyse der wiskundige so in het denkbeeldige, als in het zakelyke: ter wederlegging van Spinosaas denkbeeldig samenstel; en ter aanleiding van eene sekere sakelyke wysbegeerte. Amsterdam, Joannes Pauli, 1720.
First Dutch edition of the last of Niewentyt's major works, posthumously published by Jacob van Ostade. The preliminary pages consist of a lengthy preface of 46 pages written by Van Ostade, a three-page long biography mentioning that the author died of <I>encephalitis lethargica</I> (the sleepy sickness), and an index of five pages. The second and third Dutch edition were published in 1741 resp. 1754. The work was also translated into French (1725) and English (1760).Bernard Nieuwentijt, Nieuwentijdt, or Nieuwentyt (1654 - 1718) was a Dutch philosopher, mathematician, physician, and theologian. As a philosopher, he was a follower of Descartes and an opponent of Spinoza. Although he was expected to become a minister, he chose instead to study natural sciences and medicine in Leiden and in Utrecht. After that he settled as a physician in Purmerend where he a few years later also became a burgomaster. Although his influence in philosophy was negligible, his position as a methodologist was unique up to modern times. The erudite scholarship of a small-town physician, apparent on almost every page of the book, is surprising. His work reveals a full acquaintance with the mathematics and other disciplines of his period and he was in contact with quite a few of the European scientific celebrities of his time. He was engaged for example in a controversy with Leibnitz and his school on the foundations of calculus and he rejected Leibnitz' approach to analysis.He wrote several books including his well-known work <I>Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen, ter overtuiginge van ongodisten en ongelovigen </I>(The true use of World-concepts; 1715), which argued for the existence of God and attacked Spinoza, also published by Joannes Pauli, and also translated into English as <I>The Existence of God, shown by the Wonders of Nature</I> and into French.Nieuwentyt felt that rationalism led to Spinozism and other kinds of atheism. In the present work he argued Spinoza's 'geometrical method' was not the proper 'experimental method' of science, and he fights a methodical struggle against rationalism arriving at a clear distinction between what he called ideal and factual mathematics. He defends the insight that both avail themselves of the same formal methods, that all ideal statements are conditional, and that the ultimate criterion for factual statements is corroboration by experience.
Good copy with wide margins.- (Top corner of title cut out; some water staining throughout).
<I>DSB</I> 9, pp. 120-1; Bierens de Haan 3564; <I>NNBW </I>VI, cols. 1062-3; Israel, <I>Enlightenment Contested</I>, pp. 385-6; cf. Poggendorf II, col 289 (other works); Vermij, <I>Secularisering en natuurwetenschap</I>, p. 83 ff.

4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Title in red & black with engraved vignette by J. Mulder, woodcut initials and end-pieces. (56), 458 pp.

[SW: 18th Century; Dutch; Spinoza; Mathematics]

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