The Enlightenment world / edited by, Martin Fitzpatrick ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Intellectual origins of Enlightment. Introduction / Peter Jones -- Science and the coming of Enlightenment / John Henry -- The quest for philosophical certainty / Peter Schouls -- The critique of Christianity / James Sybikowski -- Enquiry, scepticism and Enlightenment / Aaron Garrett -- The Huguenot debate on toleration / Luisa Simonutti -- 2. Aspects of Enlightenment formations. The Dutch Republic: 'that mother nation of liberty' / Hugh Dunthorne -- A crucible for change: Englightentment in Britain / Alexander Murdoch -- The itinerary of a young intellectual in early Enlightenment Germany / Martin Mulsow -- The age of Louis XIV and early Enlightenment in France / Martin Fitzpatrick -- 3. The high Enlightenment. Introduction / Martin Fitzpatrick -- Pursuing an enlightenend gospel: happiness from deism to materialism to atheism / Darrin M. McMahon -- Progress and optimism / Clare Jackson -- The science of man / Christa Knellwolf -- Historical writing in the Enlightenment world / Johnson Kent Wright -- Education and the reproduction of the Englightenment / Geraint Parry -- Science and the eighteenth-century public: scientific revolutions and the changing format of scientific investigation / Larry Stewart -- 4. Polite culture and the arts. Introduction / Peter Jones -- Feminizing the Enlightenment: the problem of sensibility / Jane Rendall -- Polite worlds of Enlightenment / Margaret C. Jacob -- Nature and art in Enlightenment culture / John Sweetman -- Music and the Enlightenment / Cynthia Verb -- Italian operas and their audience / Peter Jones -- 5. Material and popular culture. Introduction / Peter Jones -- Encyclopaedism and Enlightenment / Richard Yeo -- Print culture in the Enlightenment / Carla Hesse -- The appearance of Enlightenment: refashioning the elites / Peter McNeil -- Popular culture / Nicholas Rogers -- 6. Reforming the world. Introduction / Martin Fitzpatrick -- The party of the philosophes / David Garrioch -- Enlightenment, republicanism and radicalism / Mark Philp -- The new economics of the Enlightenment / Kathryn Sutherland -- Making a better world: Enlightenment and philanthropy / David Garrioch -- Law and Enlightenment / Randall McGowen -- 7. Transformation and explorations. Introduction / Iain McCalman -- Fantasies of paradise / Jonathan Lamb -- Millenarian visions and Utopian speculations / Jon Mee --Cross-cultural encounters in the Enlightenment / Dorinda Outram -- 8. The Enlightenment and its critics: then and now. Introduction / Christa Knellwolf -- Multiple Enlightenments: rival Aufklärer at the University of Halle, 1690-1730 / Ian Hunter -- Rousseau: enlightened critic of the Enlightenment? / Tom Furniss -- Burke and the response to the Enlightenment / Frances Ferguson -- The feminist critique of Enlightenment / Karen O'Brien -- An Enlightenment critique of the Dialectic of Enlightenment / Howard Williams -- Postmodernism and the Enlightenment / Susan Wilson.