November 2020 Issue Robert Mayhew Three Cheers for Reason The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790 By Ritchie Robertson LR
March 2019 Issue Donald Rayfield When Knowledge Met Power Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment By Robert Zaretsky
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
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
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
November 2016 Issue Richard Bourke Rational Selections The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy By Anthony Gottlieb 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
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