
The Enlightenment that Failed
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- 1: Introduction: Radical Enlightenment and 'Modernity'
- Part I: The Origins of Democratic Modernity
- 2: The Rise of Democratic Republicanism
- 3: From Radical Renaissance to Radical Enlightenment
- 4: From Radical Reformation to the Cercle Spinoziste
- 5: English 'Deism' and its pre-1700 Roots
- 6: Great 'Moderates' and the Temptations of the Radical: Montesquieu and the Forbidden
- 7: D'Holbach against Voltaire and Rousseau: a triangular battle of Political Thought Systems
- 8: Revolution without Violence: The Nordic Model
- Part II: Human Rights and Revolution (1770-1830)
- 9: Parallel Revolutions: America and France (1774-1793)
- 10: General Will' and The Invention of Universal and Equal Human Rights (1750-1789)
- 11: Emancipating Women: Marriage, Equality, and Female Citizenship (1775-1815)
- 12: From Classical Economics to post-Classical redistributive Economics (1775-1820)
- 13: Reforming Europe's Law Codes
- 14: Unity of Humanity: Race Theory and the Equality of Peoples
- 15: Unity of Humanity: Property, Class, and the Emancipation of Man
- Part III: Revolution and Competing Revolutionary Ideologies (1789-1830)
- 16: Robespierre anti-philosophe, Or, the Battle of Ideologies during the French Revolution
- 17: The Swiss Revolution and the Hard Climb to Democratic Republicanism (1782-1848)
- 18: The Belgian Revolution (1787-1794)
- 19: Enlightening against Robespierre (and Napoleon): the Écoles centrales (1792-1804)
- 20: Revolution and the Universities: Germany's 'Philosophy Wars' (1780-1820)
- 21: Radicalism and Repression in the Anglo-American World (1775-1815)
- 22: The American Connection
- 23: The Spanish Revolution (1808-1823)
- 24: Black Emancipation, Universal Emancipation and the Haïtian Revolution (1775-1825)
- Part IV: The Enlightenment that Failed
- 25: Reaction and Radicalism: Germany and the Low Countries (1814-1830)
- 26: British Philosophical Radicalism (1814-1830)
- 27: Failed Restoration in France (1814-1830)
- 28: Bolívar and Spinoza
- 29: Karl Marx and the Left's Turn from Radical Enlightenment to Socialism (1838-1848)
- 30: Conclusion: The 'Radical Enlightenment Thesis' and Its Critics
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