{"product_id":"the-kingdom-of-darkness-bayle-newton-and-the-emancipation-of-the-european-mind-from-philosophy-paperback-softback-9781009695169","title":"The Kingdom of Darkness; Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009695169","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Kingdom of Darkness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis transformative account of early modern intellectual life culminates with new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDmitri Levitin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009695169, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e982 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.9 cm, 1.389 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a remarkably erudite and important study with a highly intricate argument that requires slow and careful reading if one is fully to grasp its insights and nuances.' Daniel Woolf, Marginalia Review of Books\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1500, speculative philosophy lay at the heart of European intellectual life; by 1700, its role was drastically diminished. The Kingdom of Darkness tells the story of this momentous transformation. Dmitri Levitin explores the structural factors behind this change: the emancipation of natural philosophy from metaphysics; theologians' growing preference for philology over philosophy; and a new conception of the limits of the human mind derived from historical and oriental scholarship, not least concerning China and Japan. In turn, he shows that the ideas of two of Europe's most famous thinkers, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton, were both the products of this transformation and catalysts for its success. Drawing on hundreds of sources in many languages, Levitin traces in unprecedented detail Bayle and Newton's conceptions of what Thomas Hobbes called The Kingdom of Darkness: a genealogical vision of how philosophy had corrupted the human mind. Both men sought to remedy this corruption, and their ideas helped lay the foundation for the system of knowledge that emerged in the eighteenth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Conventions\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Giving Up Philosophy: The Transformation of a System of Knowledge: 1. Giving Up Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 1.1. The Emancipation of Natural Philosophy from Metaphysics\u003cbr\u003e 1.2. The Emancipation of Theology from Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 1.3. Reconstructing the Pagan Mind in Seventeenth-century Europe: A Historico-philosophical Critique of Pure Reason\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Pierre Bayle and The Emancipation of Religion from Philosophy: 2. Pierre Bayle: A Life in the Republic of Letters\u003cbr\u003e 2.1. Greece, Asia, and the Logic of Paganism. Cartesian Occasionalism as the only 'Christian Philosophy'\u003cbr\u003e 2.2. The Manichean Articles and the 'Sponge of All Religions'\u003cbr\u003e 2.3. Theological Method and the Foundations of Protestant Faith\u003cbr\u003e 2.4. Virtuous Atheism, Philosophic Sin, and Toleration\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Isaac Newton and the Emancipation of Natural Philosophy from Metaphysics: 3. The Formation of Newton's Natural Philosophical Project, 1664–1687\u003cbr\u003e 3.1. After the Principia. Justifying a Science of Properties and the Invention of 'Newtonianism'\u003cbr\u003e 3.2. The Queries to the Optice (1706). An Intelligent God, the Divine Sensorium, and the Development of an Anti-metaphysical Natural Theology\u003cbr\u003e 3.3. The General Scholium: A Non-metaphysical Physics\u003cbr\u003e 3.4. Newton's Kingdom of Darkness Complete\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Conclusion: The European System of Knowledge, 1700 and Beyond: Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463021326616,"sku":"9781009695169","price":34.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009695169i.jpg?v=1785545521","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-kingdom-of-darkness-bayle-newton-and-the-emancipation-of-the-european-mind-from-philosophy-paperback-softback-9781009695169","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}