I was lucky enough to have Jacob as a professor in grad school. She's the real deal: a true intellectual, not a word-gamesmith.
From the Columbia site:
From the Columbia site:
What are the prospects for radical thought in our own times? Some of the most eminent and interesting historians in the world gathered at the Columbia University Heyman Center for the Humanities on March 1 for a daylong conference focusing on some of the dissenting voices of the Enlightenment in both Europe and America. Leading scholars offered their perspectives on the intellectual movement that swept through Europe and the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries, impacting the realms of science, theology and politics.
Margaret Jacob Margaret Jacob, professor of history, UCLA, "The Radical Enlightenment: A Heavenly City with Many Mansions"
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Jonathan Israel Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, "The Socio-cultural Structure of the Radical Enlightenment, or Why Holland and Not Britain? and Why Spinoza and Not Hobbes or Toland?"
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Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, reading a series of notes by Joyce Appleby on "Another Look at American Radicalism"
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Eric Foner Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
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Phyllis Mack Phyllis Mack, professor of history, Rutgers University, "Agency and the Unconscious: Spiritual Dreams in 18th- Century Britain"
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Deborah Valenze Deborah Valenze, professor of history, Barnard College, commentator
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