March 2024 Issue David Bromwich Enthusiasm and Its Discontents The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis By Richard Whatmore 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
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
November 2016 Issue Richard Bourke Rational Selections The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy By Anthony Gottlieb 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
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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