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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political theory > early modern political thought > radical enlightenment

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radical enlightenment  

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  • The radical Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement that swept across Europe from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century, challenging theologically anchored belief systems and hierarchical conceptions of society. Recent historical and historiographical studies of this movement complicate the standard view of the Enlightenment as an emancipatory project that was advanced by freethinking modernists against traditionalists. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Radical Enlightenment]

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