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`Review from previous edition There is much to praise in Israel's majestic account of the Enlightenment and his detective work in placing Spinoza at the heart of it.' A.C. Grayling, FT Weekend `Enter Jonathan Israel. His vast - and vastly impressive - book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. The stupendous scale of this book ranges from London to Moscow, Stockholm to Naples, in a virtuoso display of polyglot learning.' John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph `By far the most subversive and influential of radicals, Israel argues, was Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77), the Amsterdam Jew whom most historians have tended to dismiss hitherto as the Cinderella at the Enlightenment Ball.' John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph `... powerful originality of a book that sets out to redefine the entire dramatis personae of the Enlightenment, re-assigning major roles, and introducing a far more varied and cosmopolitan cast than has ever previously been allowed to be seen.' John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph `Magnificent and magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.' John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
