The Enlightenment : a genealogy - Edelstein, Dan. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Interpreting the Enlightenment: on methods -- A map of the Enlightenment: whither France? -- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? -- Ancients and the Orient: translatio imperii -- Enlightened institutions (i): the royal academies versus the Republic of Letters -- Enlightened institutions (ii): universities, censorship, and public instruction -- Worldliness, politeness, and the importance of not being too radical -- From Enlightenment to Revolution: a shared history? -- France and the European Enlightenment -- Modern myths.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index.
Keywords: Enlightenment -- France; Philosophy -- France -- History -- 18th century; Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of; Philosophy -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century