A Revolution of the Mind? A Purge of the Enlightenment?

  This review appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy  by Jonathan Israel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010) The Enlightenment is a tried battleground. Countless wars over the meaning of modernity have … Continue reading A Revolution of the Mind? A Purge of the Enlightenment?