10. Radicalism in the Dutch Enlightenment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. THREE DUTCH REVOLUTIONS: 1747, 1787, 1795
6. 1. The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century 19
7. 2. The Restoration of the Orangist Regime in 1747: The Modernity of a “Glorious Revolution ” 32
8. 3. Provincial Histories and National Revolution in the Dutch Republic 60
9. 4. The Patriot Revolution: New Perspectives 91
10. THE DUTCH REPUBLICAN TRADITION
11. 5. Elie Luzac and Two Dutch Revolutions: The Evolution of Orangist Political Thought 123
12. 6. Constitution, History, and Natural Law: An Eighteenth- Century Political Debate in the Dutch Republic 147
13. 7. Between Humanism and Enlightenment: The Dutch Writing of History 170
14. 8. The Dutch Republican Tradition 188
15. THE DUTCH ENLIGHTENMENT
16. 9. The Dutch Enlightenment: Humanism, Nationalism, and Decline 197
17. 10. Radicalism in the Dutch Enlightenment 224
18. 11. The Fiction of (National) Identity: Literature and Ideology in the Dutch Republic 241
19. 12. Literary Sociability in the Netherlands, 1750—1840 253
20. DUTCH CULTURE IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING
21. 13. Print Culture in the Netherlands on the Eve of the Revolution 273
22. 14. The Dutch Enlightenment and the Creation of Popular Culture 292
23. 15. Professors, Amateurs, and Learned Societies: The Organization of the Natural Sciences 308
24. 16. A Myth of Decline 324
25. Glossary 339
26. Contributors 349
27. Index 353