Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Praise

PREFACE

PROLOGUE

THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT: THE SOCIOLOGY OF VIRTUE

1. “SOCIAL AFFECTIONS” AND RELIGIOUS DISPOSITIONS

2. POLITICAL ECONOMY AND MORAL SENTIMENTS

3. EDMUND BURKE’S ENLIGHTENMENT

4. RADICAL DISSENTERS

5. METHODISM: “A SOCIAL RELIGION”

6. “THE AGE OF BENEVOLENCE”

THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT: THE IDEOLOGY OF REASON

Chapter 7

REASON AND RELIGION

LIBERTY AND REASON

ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM AND THE GENERAL WILL

LE PEUPLE AND LA CANAILLE

ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION

THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT: THE POLITICS OF LIBERTY

Chapter 8

REVOLUTION AND CONSTITUTION

LIBERTY AND VIRTUE

RELIGION AND VIRTUE

RELIGION AND ENLIGHTENMENT

THE DISADVANTAGED AND THE DISENFRANCHISED

NOTES

EPILOGUE

About the Author

ALSO BY GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB

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