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    <title>The Enlightenment</title>
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&lt;a href=&quot;voltaire.html&quot;&gt;Voltaire&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;diderot.html&quot;&gt;Diderot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a
href=&quot;hume.html&quot;&gt;Hume&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;la-mettrie.html&quot;&gt;La Mettrie&lt;/A&gt;, Smith,
Gibbon.  Origins of the &lt;a href=&quot;revolution.html&quot;&gt;revolution&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a
href=&quot;left.html&quot;&gt;Left&lt;/a&gt;.  Relations to &lt;a href=&quot;science.html&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a
href=&quot;superstition.html&quot;&gt;superstition&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href=&quot;romanticists.html&quot;&gt;Romanticism&lt;/a&gt;, the industrial revolution.
Connections and attitudes to &lt;a
href=&quot;classical-era-mediterranean.html&quot;&gt;classical antiquity&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a
href=&quot;renaissance.html&quot;&gt;Renaissance&lt;/a&gt;.

	&lt;ul&gt;Recommended:
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;cassirer.html&quot;&gt;Ernst Cassirer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;Philosophy of the
Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt; [This is and fully deserves to be a classic work, but he
has &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; to much on obscure people who either thought they were
building on Leibniz, or whom Cassirer thought were making straight the way for
Kant and Hegel, i.e., his approach to history is still too teleological.]
	&lt;li&gt;Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, &lt;cite&gt;Preliminary Discourse to the&lt;/cite&gt;
Encyclop&amp;eacute;die
	&lt;li&gt;Robert Darnton, &lt;cite&gt;Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in
France&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Peter Gay, &lt;cite&gt;The Enlightenment: An Interpretation&lt;/cite&gt;
[Dividing through for the Freudian mish-mash, fortunately under pretty good
control here]
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;gellner.html&quot;&gt;Ernest Gellner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;Thought and
Change&lt;/cite&gt; [The &lt;em&gt;philosophes&lt;/em&gt; as the first modernizing intellectuals
worked up about under-development.]
	&lt;li&gt;Jonathan I. Israel [Or, how Spinoza overthrew the old regime.]
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and
the Making of Modernity, 1650--1750&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;A Revolution of the Mind:
Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Steven Johnson, &lt;cite&gt;The Invention of Air&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Roy Porter, &lt;cite&gt;The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold
Story of the British Enlightenment&lt;/citE&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;To read:
	&lt;li&gt;C. B. A. Behrens, &lt;cite&gt;Society, Government and the Enlightenment:
The Experiences of Eighteenth-Century France and Prussia.&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Becker, &lt;cite&gt;The Heavenly City of the 18th-Century
Philosopher&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Stephen Eric Bronner, &lt;cite&gt;Reclaiming the Enlightenment:
Towards a Politics of Radical Engagement&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Condorcet, &lt;Cite&gt;Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Robert Darnton, &lt;cite&gt;The Forbidden Best-Sellers of
Pre-Revolutionary France&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Sarah Ellenzweig, &lt;cite&gt;The Fringes of Belief English Literature,
Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760&lt;/cite&gt;
[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16011&quot;&gt;blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Tore Frangsmyr, J. L. Heilbron and Robin E. Rider (eds.), &lt;cite&gt;The
Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century&lt;/cite&gt;
[&lt;a href=&quot;http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6d5nb455/&quot;&gt;online&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell (eds.), &lt;citE&gt;Encyclopedia of
Empiricism&lt;/cite&gt; [Focusing on  the 17th and 178th centuries]
	&lt;li&gt;Peter Gay, &lt;cite&gt;The Party of Humanity&lt;/cite&gt; [I hope this
pre-dates Gay's days of, pardon the phrase, flaming Freudianism]
	&lt;li&gt;Jurgen Habermas, &lt;cite&gt;The Structural Transformation of the
Public Sphere&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Paul Ilie, &lt;cite&gt;The Age of Minerva&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Ulrich Im Hof, &lt;cite&gt;The Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Israel, &lt;cite&gt;Enlightenment Contested&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Margaret C. Jacob
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Radical Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Living the Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Sarah Maza, &lt;cite&gt;Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes
Celebres of Prerevolutionary France&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6138.html&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;James Van Horn Melton, &lt;cite&gt;The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Thomas Munck, &lt;cite&gt;The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social
History, 1721--1794&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Sankar Muthu, &lt;cite&gt;Enlightenment against Empire&lt;/cite&gt;
[&lt;a href=&quot;http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7669.html&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Roy Porter
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;English Society in the Eighteenth Century&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;The Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of
Body and Soul&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England
from the Restoration to the Regency&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Giuliano Pancaldi, &lt;cite&gt;Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of
Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7557.html&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Jessica Riskin, &lt;cite&gt;Science in the Age of Sensibility: The
Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenmen&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15338.ctl&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Emma Rothschild, &lt;cite&gt;Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith and
Condorcet&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Robert E. Schofield, &lt;cite&gt;The Lunar Society of Birmingham&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Mary D. Sheriff, &lt;cite&gt;The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth
Vig&amp;eacute;e-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;David Sorkin, &lt;cite&gt;The Religious Enlightenment:
Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna&lt;/citE&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8818.html&quot;&gt;blurb, introduction&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Geoffrey V. Sutton, &lt;cite&gt;Science for a Polite Society: Gender,
Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt; [He's a good writer, but
really, how far can one trust someone writing about the Enlightenment who
thinks that &quot;no ought from is&quot; is a discovery of the
&lt;em&gt;deconstructionists&lt;/em&gt;?]
	&lt;li&gt;Murad Wahbah and Mona Abousenna (eds.), &lt;cite&gt;Averroes and the
Enlightenment&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;T. H. White, &lt;cite&gt;The Age of Scandal&lt;/cite&gt;
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