Vincenzo Ferrone is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin. He is the author of numerous studies on the Enlightenment, including The Enlightenment: History of an Idea (2010; 2015) and The Enlightenment and the Rights of Man (2014; 2019).

• Introduction: The crisis of the humanities and the cultural history of the Enlightenment1. The Enlightenment as a new humanism and a laboratory of modernity2. The Encyclopédie: Critiquing the seventeenth-century scientific revolution3. The foundations of a science for man: Empiricism and natura naturans4. Genius and imagination: The uchronies and popular sciences of the Late Enlightenment5. The Enlightenment and modern art in the age of public opinion6. The rise of intellectual power and the new politics: Imagination and experimentation in the republicanism of the moderns7. The political enigma of the global Enlightenment: The rights of man in the face of slavery8. From the science of man to the humanism of the moderns: The equality and universalism of rights and the transformation of values9. The Enlightenment and the Atlantic revolutions: the Haitian Revolution10. The legacy of the Enlightenment: How its project stalled amid new identities and Ancien régime metamorphosesBibliography

Vincenzo Ferrone is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin. He is the author of numerous studies on the Enlightenment, including The Enlightenment: History of an Idea (2010; 2015) and The Enlightenment and the Rights of Man (2014; 2019).

• Introduction: The crisis of the humanities and the cultural history of the Enlightenment1. The Enlightenment as a new humanism and a laboratory of modernity2. The Encyclopédie: Critiquing the seventeenth-century scientific revolution3. The foundations of a science for man: Empiricism and natura naturans4. Genius and imagination: The uchronies and popular sciences of the Late Enlightenment5. The Enlightenment and modern art in the age of public opinion6. The rise of intellectual power and the new politics: Imagination and experimentation in the republicanism of the moderns7. The political enigma of the global Enlightenment: The rights of man in the face of slavery8. From the science of man to the humanism of the moderns: The equality and universalism of rights and the transformation of values9. The Enlightenment and the Atlantic revolutions: the Haitian Revolution10. The legacy of the Enlightenment: How its project stalled amid new identities and Ancien régime metamorphosesBibliography

Vincenzo Ferrone is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin. He is the author of numerous studies on the Enlightenment, including The Enlightenment: History of an Idea (2010; 2015) and The Enlightenment and the Rights of Man (2014; 2019).

• Introduction: The crisis of the humanities and the cultural history of the Enlightenment1. The Enlightenment as a new humanism and a laboratory of modernity2. The Encyclopédie: Critiquing the seventeenth-century scientific revolution3. The foundations of a science for man: Empiricism and natura naturans4. Genius and imagination: The uchronies and popular sciences of the Late Enlightenment5. The Enlightenment and modern art in the age of public opinion6. The rise of intellectual power and the new politics: Imagination and experimentation in the republicanism of the moderns7. The political enigma of the global Enlightenment: The rights of man in the face of slavery8. From the science of man to the humanism of the moderns: The equality and universalism of rights and the transformation of values9. The Enlightenment and the Atlantic revolutions: the Haitian Revolution10. The legacy of the Enlightenment: How its project stalled amid new identities and Ancien régime metamorphosesBibliography