Steffen Ducheyne (editor) - Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment

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Harvey Chisick is Emeritus Professor of General History at the University of Haifa. He has edited the Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment (Scarecrow Press, 2005), which appeared in 2005 and he is the author of The Limits of Reform in the Enlightenment: Attitudes to the Education of the Lower Classes in France, 17621789 (Princeton University Press, 1981) and The Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the Early French Revolution: The Ami du Roy of the Abb Royou (American Philosophical Society, 1992). He has published widely in the field of Enlightenment Studies.

Jennifer J. Davis is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Her book, Defining Culinary Authority (Louisiana State University Press, 2013) examines how work, gender, law, and the public sphere intersected for cooks in eighteenth-century France. She is presently researching a social history of libertinage in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and its empire.

Charles Devellennes is Lecturer in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent. His research interests lie in the fields of the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, particularly the political nature of atheism from the seventeenth century to today. He has recently published on dHolbachs political thought ( History of Political Thought , 2013) and international ethics ( Journal of International Political Theory , 2014), Isaiah Berlin ( Philosophy & Social Criticism , 2014), and contemporary atheism ( Telos , 2014; Contemporary Political Theory , 2016). He is currently working on a monograph on Radical Atheism from Bayle to Diderot.

Steffen Ducheyne is Research Professor at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is the author of The Main Business of natural Philosophy : Isaac Newtons Natural-Philosophical Methodology (Springer, 2012). His research lies in the intersections between the history of science, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. He is currently working on early eighteenth-century Dutch appropriations of Isaac Newtons work. He has published widely in history and philosophy of science.

Ultn Gillen is Senior Lecturer in European History at Teesside University. He has written on the Enlightenment and political culture in Ireland, and is currently completing a book on the political and social thought of Theobald Wolfe Tone entitled Theobald Wolfe Tone: Revolutionary Democrat .

Jonathan I. Israel has been Professor of Modern History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, since 2001. Previously, from 1984, he held the chair of Dutch History at University College London where he taught from 1974. The first volume of his series on the Enlightenment, entitled Radical Enlightenment (Oxford University Press) appeared in 2001, the second Enlightenment Contested (Oxford University Press) in 2006, and the third Democratic Enlightenment (Oxford University Press) in 2011. His intellectual history of the French Revolution, Revolutionary Ideas (Princeton University Press), was published in 2014; his latest book is: The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 17751848 (Princeton University Press, 2017).

Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor at the History Department at UCLA. Her overriding intellectual concern has been with the development of the Radical Enlightenment and with the meaning and impact of the Newtonian synthesis on religion, political ideology, industrial development and cultural practises. She is the author of The Newtonians and the English Revolution (Cornell University Press), The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (George Allen & Unwin), The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (McGraw Hill), Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (Oxford University Press), Practical Matter: The Impact of Newtons Science from 1687 to 1851 (with Larry Stewart, Harvard University Press), and The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions and Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (both published with the University of Pennsylvania Press). Most recently she has published The First Knowledge Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and contributed various essays to the online journal, Republic of Letters.

Ian Leask is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Theology, Philosophy and Music, Dublin City University. He has published widely in the history of philosophy and in aspects of Continental philosophy. He is the editor of a modern, annotated, version of John Tolands Letters to Serena (Dublin, 2013).

Nancy Levene is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching centre on religion and modernity, with particular attention to these as root concepts that structure the humanities, together with reason, history, the West, and the global. She has published articles on topics in the history of these concepts, as well as on figures such as Anselm, Spinoza, and Leo Strauss. Her first book, Spinozas Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2004), considers Spinozas treatment of human power in the regions of religion, politics, and interpretation. Her second book, Powers of Distinction: On Religion and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2017), revises foundational stories in the history of Western modernity. Her current research is on the ends of metaphysics in light of Christianity, Judaism, and secularism.

Beth Lord is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Spinozas Ethics : an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and the editor of Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). She is currently working on a project on Spinoza and equality.

Eric Palmer is Professor of Philosophy at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania. His writing within intellectual and cultural history from the seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries focuses upon English and French philosophy and natural science in particular, in Descartes, the Royal Society, and Voltaire. He has edited the Broadview Critical Edition of Candide (2009).