General Secondary

M.St. in Enlightenment

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

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)