
Enlightenment Contested
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- I: Introductory
- 1: Early Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Modern Age
- 2: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity
- II: The Crisis of Religious Authority
- 3: Faith and Reason: Bayle versus the Rationaux
- 4: Demolishing Priesthood, Ancient and Modern
- 5: Socinianism and the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Roots of Enlightenment
- 6: Locke, Bayle, and Spinoza: A Contest of Three Toleration Doctrines
- 7: Germany and the Baltic: Enlightenment, Society, and the Universities
- 8: Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism in the Early Enlightenment: Science, Philosophy, and Religion
- III: Political Emancipation
- 9: Anit-Hobbesianism and the Making of 'Modernity'
- 10: The Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism
- 11: Bayle, Boulainvilliers, Montesquieu: Secular Monarchy versus the Aristocratic Republic
- 12: 'Enlightened Despotism': Autocracy, Faith, and Enlightenment in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1689-1755
- 13: Popular Sovereignty, Resistance, and the 'Right to Revolution'
- 14: Anglomania, anglicisme, and the 'British Model'
- 15: The Triumph of the 'Moderate Enlightenment' in the United Provinces
- IV: Intellectual Emancipation
- 16: The Overthrow of Humanist Criticism
- 17: The Recovery of Greek Thought
- 18: The Rise of 'History of Philosophy'
- 19: From 'History of Philosophy' to Histoire de l'Esprit humain
- 20: Italy, the Two Enlightenments, and Vico's 'New Science'
- V: The Party of Humanity
- 21: The Problem of Equality
- 22: Sex, Marriage, and the Equality of Women
- 23: Race, Radical Thought, and the Advent of Anti-Colonialism
- 24: Rethinking Islam: Philosophy and the 'Other'
- 25: Spinoza, Confucius, and Classical Chinese Philosophy
- 26: Is Religion Requisite for a Well-Ordered Society?
- VI: Radical Philosophes
- 27: The French Enlightenment prior to Voltaire's Lettres Philosophiques (1734)
- 28: Men, Animals, Fossils: French Hylozoic materialisme before Diderot
- 29: Realigning of the parti philosophique: Voltair, Voltairemanie, antivoltairianisme 1733-1747
- 30: From Voltaire to Diderot
- 31: The 'Unvirtuous Atheist'
- 32: The parti philosophique Embraces the Radical Enlightenment 1747-1752
- 33: The 'War of the Encyclopedie: The First Stage 1745-1752
- 34: Postscript
- Bibliography
- Index
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