"His vast--and vastly impressive--book sets out to redefine the
intellectual landscape of early modern Europe....Magnificent and
magisterial, Radical Enlightenment will undoubtedly be one of the truly
great historical works of the decade."--John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
"[A] magnificent...study of the impact of Spinoza and his philosophy on
European cultural history at the hinge of the 17th and 18th
centuries....Sumptuous in the energy, clarity and breadth of its
scholarship."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Mr. Israel's lucid, engrossing account of the Enlightenment's
formative period explains why we want our intellectual histories
rewritten for every generation, for this Enlightenment overflows with
our favorite things."--The Scriblerian