I: Introductory ;Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age ;Philosophy and the Making of Modernity ;II: The Crisis of Religious Authority ;Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux ;Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern ;Socinianism and

In this magisterial survey of the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel returns to the primary texts to offer a major new reinterpretation of the nature and development of the important currents in philosophical thinking, arguing that supposed national enlightenments are of less significance than the rift between conservative and radical thought.