TY - BOOK AU - Edelstein,Dan TI - The Enlightenment: a genealogy SN - 9780226184470 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - B802 .E34 2010 U1 - 944/.034 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Enlightenment KW - France KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of KW - Europe KW - Intellectual life N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-192) and index; 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 ER -