March 2024 Issue
David Bromwich
Enthusiasm and Its Discontents
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
By Richard Whatmore
LR
November 2020 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Three Cheers for Reason
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790
By Ritchie Robertson
LR
June 2019 Issue
Helena Rosenblatt
A Leap of Reason
The Secular Enlightenment
By Margaret C Jacob
March 2019 Issue
Donald Rayfield
When Knowledge Met Power
Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
By Robert Zaretsky
December 2018 Issue
Darrin M McMahon
The Joys of Enlightenment
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
By David Wootton
LR
October 1993 Issue
Peter Levi
A Most Ridiculous but Lovable Man Revived
The Magus of the North: J G Hamann and the Origins of Unseen Irrationalism
By Isaiah Berlin
July 2018 Issue
Robert Irwin
There Be Despots
Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia
By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage)
LR
May 2001 Issue
Jane O'Grady
Did He Influence the Mushrooming Zeitgeist?
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750
By Jonathan Israel
LR
February 2018 Issue
Anthony Pagden
A Light unto the World?
The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848
By Jonathan Israel
LR
February 2018 Issue
Julian Baggini
Never Had It So Good
Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress
By Steven Pinker
March 2017 Issue
Joe Moshenska
All Touchy-Feely
The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
By Carolyn Purnell
LR
February 2017 Issue
Eric Ormsby
Righteous Reformations
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
By Christopher de Bellaigue
November 2016 Issue
Richard Bourke
Rational Selections
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
By Anthony Gottlieb
LR
October 2016 Issue
Ian McBride
Dublin’s New Dawn
The Irish Enlightenment
By Michael Brown
LR
December 2015 Issue
Ben Hutchinson
Loosening the Chains
Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment
By T J Reed
LR
November 2015 Issue
Dominic Green
What’s It To Do with the Price of Bread?
The Enlightenment: History of an Idea
By Vincenzo Ferrone (Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino)
LR
March 2008 Issue
Paul Johnson
Ideas in Action
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments
By Gertrude Himmelfarb
LR
April 2014 Issue
Darrin M McMahon
Fighting Philosophers
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
By Jonathan Israel
LR
May 2013 Issue
Andy Martin
Chewing Things Over
Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760
By E C Spary
LR
June 2013 Issue
Richard Bourke
How the West Was Won
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters
By Anthony Pagden
LR
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