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Bibliography

General secondary
Works in English are essential reading; students should also read
the works in their other language(s).

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment,

trans. John Cumming (Verso, 1997) [Dialektik der Aufklärung
(1944)]
T. C. W. Blanning, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture:
Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 (Oxford, 2002)
Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, tr. Fritz C. A.
Koelln and James P. Pettegrove (Princeton, 1979) (Die Philosophie
der Aufklärung (1932))
Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Bestsellers of the Pre-
Revolutionary France (Harper Collins, 1996)
Michèle Duchet, Anthropologie et histoire au siècle des Lumières
(Paris, 1971)
Michel Delon, ed., Dictionnaire européen des lumières (Paris,
1997); 2nd ed. (Paris, 2010) (also as Delon, ed., Encyclopedia of
the Enlightenment, 2 vols (Chicago, 2001))
Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy (Chicago, 2010)
Walter Hinck and Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock (eds), Europäische
Aufklärung, 3 vols, Neues Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft, XI-
XIII (Frankfurt a. M.: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft
Athenaion/Wiesbaden: AULA-Verlag, 1974-84)
Marian Hobson, The Object of Art: Theories of illusion in 18thc
France (Cambridge, 1981); Networks of Enlightenment, ed.
Caroline Warman and Kate E. Tunstall (Oxford, 2011)
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the
Making of Modernity (Oxford, 2001); Enlightenment Contested:
Philosophy, Modernity and the Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752
(Oxford, 2006); Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy,
Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790 (Oxford, 2011)
Margaret C. Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Free-
Masons and Republicans (1981)
Panajotis Kondylis, Die Aufklärung im Rahmen des neuzeitlichen
Rationalismus (Stuttgart, 1981; repr. Hamburg, 2002)
Mark Lilla, ‘What is Counter-Enlightenment?’, in: Isaiah Berlin’s
Counter-Enlightenment, ed. Joseph Mali and Robert Wokler,
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 93 (2003),
part 5 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003), pp. 1-
11
Peter M. Cryle and Lisa O’Connell (eds), Libertine Enlightenment
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Roland Mortier Les combats des lumières (2000)
Dorinda Outram, Panorama of the Enlightenment (2005)
Roy Porter, The Enlightenment (1990); Flesh in the Age of reason
(Penguin, 2004)
John Redwood, Reason, Ridicule and Religion: Age of
Enlightenment in England 1650-1750 (Thames and Hudson, 1996)
Jessica Riskin, Science in the age of sensibility (Chicago, 2002)
James Schmidt (ed.), What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century
Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions (Berkeley: Univ of
California Press, 1996)
James Schmidt, ‘German Enlightenment’ (2011), at
https://www.academia.edu/3751157/German_Enlightenment
Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in
Enlightenment Art and Medecine (MIT, 1991)
Jean Starobinski, L’Invention de la liberté 1700-1789 (Paris, 1964) ;
Les Emblèmes de la raison (Paris, 1973)
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Europa im Jahrhundert der Aufklärung
(Stuttgart, 2000)
Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott, Women, Gender and the
Enlightenment (Palgrave, 2007)
Ann Thomson, Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion and the Soul
in the early Enlightenment (Oxford, 2008)
Kate E. Tunstall, Blindness and Enlightenment. An Essay (New
York, 2011)
Kate E. Tunstall (ed), Self-Evident Truths? Human Rights and the
Enlightenment (New York, 2012)
Charles Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking
geographically about the age of reason (Chicago, 2007)
Clifford Siskin and William Warner (eds), This Is Enlightenment
(Chicago, 2010)

Readers and Encyclopedias

The Enlightenment World, ed. Martin Fitzpatrick et al. (London,
2007).
The Portable Enlightenment Reader, ed. Isaac Kramnick
The Enlightenment: a brief history with documents, ed Margaret C.
Jacob (Macmillan 2001)
Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. Knud
Haakonnsen (2006)
Lexikon der Aufklärung: Deutschland und Europa, ed. Werner
Schneiders (Munich, 1995)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Peter Hanns Reill and Ellen
Judy Wilson (New York, 1996)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors, 4 vols
(Oxford, 2003)

Journals
Aufklärung (1986- )
Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC)