Jonathan Israel and Philipp Blom Discuss Radical Enlightenment

For the occasion of the release of Jonathan Israel's latest book Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790, Philipp Blom speaks to Jonathan Israel about the last part of Israel's monumental trilogy on the rise (1650-1750), the development (1670-1752) and the democratisation (1750-1790) of the Radical Enlightenment.

Blom, well known for his books The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914 (2009) and A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (2010), reflects with Jonathan Israel on the apotheosis of this Enlightenment project which took Israel ten years to complete. Israel will also speak about his life as a historian of the Enlightenment and especially about his point of view about whether the morals of the Enlightenment era are universal from the Golden Age beyond the French Revolution and into the 21st century.

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• Jonathan Israel
• Philipp Blom
• Felix Meritis
• Radical Enlightenment