Élisabeth Décultot is Humboldt-Professor of German literature at Martin Luther University Halle and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA). Her research focuses on 18th-19th century literature and the history of scholarly practices in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to European knowledge transfers. Nicholas Cronk is Professor of European Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford, and Director of the Voltaire Foundation. As general editor of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, he has overseen the completion of the print edition in 205 volumes, and he is now directing the creation of Voltaire Online, the first definitive digital edition.

'A rewarding, often absorbing collection of testimonies to the longevity and resilience of Enlightenment thinking.' Ritchie Robertson, Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch

• Introduction: Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) / Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions de Lumières, d’Enlightenment et d’Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980Christian Helmreich (Halle) Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856: deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle Daniel Weidner (Halle) Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch Francesca Iannelli (Rome) Understanding, radicalizing and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel’s use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy Stéphane Zékian (Lyon) Les Lumières à l’épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d’éloquence à l’Académie française (1831-1904) Brian W. Young (Oxford) Afyer Carlyle: ‘Enlightenment’ in Victorian Britain Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) Germanizing the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Aufklärung Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils Andrew Kahn (Oxford) The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900 Mike Rottmann (Halle) The dilemma of Enlightenment: German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century James Schmidt (Boston) Nihilism, Enlightenment, and the ‘new failure of nerve’: arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947 Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) Ideas in action: Franco Venturi’s Settecento Gregory S. Brown (Las Vegas) The question of Peter Gay’s Enlightenment: between ‘heavenly city’ and the ‘brute facts of political life’ (1948-1956) Daniel Fulda (Halle) ‘Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist wieder da’: activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left and in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR

Élisabeth Décultot is Humboldt-Professor of German literature at Martin Luther University Halle and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA). Her research focuses on 18th-19th century literature and the history of scholarly practices in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to European knowledge transfers. Nicholas Cronk is Professor of European Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford, and Director of the Voltaire Foundation. As general editor of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, he has overseen the completion of the print edition in 205 volumes, and he is now directing the creation of Voltaire Online, the first definitive digital edition.

'A rewarding, often absorbing collection of testimonies to the longevity and resilience of Enlightenment thinking.' Ritchie Robertson, Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch

• Introduction: Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) / Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions de Lumières, d’Enlightenment et d’Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980Christian Helmreich (Halle) Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856: deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle Daniel Weidner (Halle) Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch Francesca Iannelli (Rome) Understanding, radicalizing and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel’s use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy Stéphane Zékian (Lyon) Les Lumières à l’épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d’éloquence à l’Académie française (1831-1904) Brian W. Young (Oxford) Afyer Carlyle: ‘Enlightenment’ in Victorian Britain Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) Germanizing the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Aufklärung Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils Andrew Kahn (Oxford) The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900 Mike Rottmann (Halle) The dilemma of Enlightenment: German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century James Schmidt (Boston) Nihilism, Enlightenment, and the ‘new failure of nerve’: arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947 Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) Ideas in action: Franco Venturi’s Settecento Gregory S. Brown (Las Vegas) The question of Peter Gay’s Enlightenment: between ‘heavenly city’ and the ‘brute facts of political life’ (1948-1956) Daniel Fulda (Halle) ‘Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist wieder da’: activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left and in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR

Élisabeth Décultot is Humboldt-Professor of German literature at Martin Luther University Halle and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA). Her research focuses on 18th-19th century literature and the history of scholarly practices in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to European knowledge transfers. Nicholas Cronk is Professor of European Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford, and Director of the Voltaire Foundation. As general editor of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, he has overseen the completion of the print edition in 205 volumes, and he is now directing the creation of Voltaire Online, the first definitive digital edition.

'A rewarding, often absorbing collection of testimonies to the longevity and resilience of Enlightenment thinking.' Ritchie Robertson, Lessing Yearbook / Jahrbuch

• Introduction: Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) / Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions de Lumières, d’Enlightenment et d’Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980Christian Helmreich (Halle) Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856: deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle Daniel Weidner (Halle) Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch Francesca Iannelli (Rome) Understanding, radicalizing and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel’s use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy Stéphane Zékian (Lyon) Les Lumières à l’épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d’éloquence à l’Académie française (1831-1904) Brian W. Young (Oxford) Afyer Carlyle: ‘Enlightenment’ in Victorian Britain Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) Germanizing the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Aufklärung Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils Andrew Kahn (Oxford) The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900 Mike Rottmann (Halle) The dilemma of Enlightenment: German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century James Schmidt (Boston) Nihilism, Enlightenment, and the ‘new failure of nerve’: arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947 Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) Ideas in action: Franco Venturi’s Settecento Gregory S. Brown (Las Vegas) The question of Peter Gay’s Enlightenment: between ‘heavenly city’ and the ‘brute facts of political life’ (1948-1956) Daniel Fulda (Halle) ‘Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist wieder da’: activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left and in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR