Enlightenment World

Martin Fitzpatrick was formerly Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Department of History and Welsh History, the University of Wales, Aberyswyth. He is co-editor of Enlightenment and Dissent.Peter Jones is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Christa Knellwolf is affiliated to the Austrailian National University and co-editor (with Christopher Norris) of 'The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.9.’Iain McCalman is the Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and general editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832'

'A triumph ... The volume combines all the best features of the Routledge Worlds series ... in this case we really do have "the best study of the Enlightenment World ever produced".' - Historical Journal‘The volume will be of immeasurable help to those who want to explore the moving frontiers of Enlightenment studies, and it will undoubtedly encourage students to look for new challenges.’ – English Historical Review

• 1. The Intellectual Origins of the Enlightenment  2. Early Enlightenment Formations  3. The High Enlightenment  4. Polite Culture and the Arts  5. Material and Popular Culture  6. Reforming the World  7. Transformations and Explorations  8. The Enlightenment and its Critics: Then and Now