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writes: "He saw in the Enlightenment a profound response to experiences of religiously-inspired violence all too similar to the events of his own time; he believed that the Enlightenment's calls for toleration and personal freedom, and its opposition to sectarianism and fanaticism, remained urgently
420: 42:, to Isaac and Ilona Wochiler, both war refugees; the family was allowed entry to Switzerland several months later because he was an infant. They would later move to 77:, both refugees themselves, served as his supervisors at Oxford and were significant influences. Wokler wrote his doctoral thesis on the thought of philosopher 425: 400: 415: 430: 410: 405: 366: 244: 460: 455: 450: 470: 435: 475: 395: 222: 90: 480: 445: 98: 22:(6 December 1942 – 30 July 2006) was a British historian who was a leading scholar of the political thought of the 359: 190: 440: 280: 465: 352: 94: 62: 217: 66: 301: 78: 58: 390: 385: 23: 8: 340: 302:"Robert Wokler: Eloquent and highly regarded scholar of Rousseau and the Enlightenment" 289: 164: 101:
colleges at the University of Cambridge. Wokler later became a senior lecturer at
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Wokler found an interest in political thought after meeting political philosopher
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The Enlightenment: the nation-state and the primal patricide of modernity
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Man and society: political and social theories from Machiavelli to Marx
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This article about a British historian or genealogist is a
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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies
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A number of works from his collection on Rousseau and
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Enlightenment
Auch
France
Paris
San Francisco
Leo Strauss
University of Chicago
London School of Economics
Nuffield College, Oxford
John Plamenatz
Isaiah Berlin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
University of Manchester
Trinity
Sidney Sussex
Yale University
Diderot



"Robert Wokler, scholar of Enlightenment and Rousseau"


"Robert Wokler: Scholar steeped in the political thought of the Enlightenment"
The Guardian
"University obituaries"
The University of Chicago Magazine
"Leigh Collection"
"In Memoriam: Robert Wokler's Enlightenment Project"
History of Political Thought

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