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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chapter 1: The Enlightenment
Contemporary definitions
Historical reconstructions
Chapter 2: Engaging with religion
Enquiry into natural and revealed religionin the 17th century
Early Enlightenment
‘The Enlightenment Bible’
Enlightenment histories of religion
Arguments for toleration in the name of civil peace
Protestant arguments for toleration
Toleration from Voltaire to the Declaration of the Rights of Man
The sacred and the civil
Chapter 3: Bettering the human condition
Moral philosophy and sociability
History
Rousseau
Political economy
Chapter 4: Enlightening the public
The ‘public sphere’
Institutions of sociability
Print culture
The Enlightenment author
Enlightenment, government, and the public
Enlightenment and revolution
Chapter 5: The Enlightenment in philosophy and history
The philosophers’ Enlightenment
The historians’ response
The Enlightenment in historical perspective
References
Futher Reading
Index
Humanism
Social Media
Online Catalogue
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