Foreword
Preface LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART ONE
Introduction: The Struggle to Create a New Culture
Political Origins
Scientific and Religious Origins
The Public Sphere
Enlightened Feminism
Reworking Seventeenth-Century Formal Philosophy
A Clandestine Universe
A Protestant Odyssey
Travel Literature
Anglophilia
Mid-Century Crisis
Rousseau
The International Republican Conversation, 1775–1800
Slavery, Imperialism, and the French Revolution
The Legacy of the Enlightenment
A Note about the Text
PART TWO
The Documents
1. John Locke,
Some Thoughts concerning Education, 1693
2.
Treatise of the Three Impostors, 1719
3. Voltaire,
Letters concerning the English Nation, 1733
4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
Letters, 1716–1718
5. Denis Diderot,
Encyclopedia, 1751
6. Denis Diderot,
Supplement to Bougainville’s VOYAGE, 1772
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
The Social Contract, 1762
8. Immanuel Kant,
What Is Enlightenment? 1784
9. Moses Mendelssohn,
Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism, 1783
APPENDIXES
An Enlightenment Chronology (1685–1800)
Selected Bibliography
Index