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• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Interpreting the Enlightenment: On Methods
• 2. A Map of the Enlightenment: Whither France?
• 3. The Spirit of the Moderns: From the New Science to the Enlightenment
• 4. Society, the Subject of the Modern Story
• 5. Quarrel in the Academy: The Ancients Strike Back
• 6. Humanism and Enlightenment: The Classical Style of the “Philosophes”
• 7. The Philosophical Spirit of the Laws: Politics and Antiquity
• 8. An Ancient God: Pagans and Philosophers
• 9 “Post Tenebras Lux: Begriffsgeschichte” or “Régime d’Historicité?”
• 10. Ancients and the Orient: “Translatio Imperii”
• 11. Enlightened Institutions (I): The Royal Academies versus the Republic of Letters
• 12. Enlightened Institutions (II): Universities, Censorship, and Public Instruction
• 13. Worldliness, Politeness, and the Importance of Not Being Too Radical
• 14. From Enlightenment to Revolution: A Shared History?
• 15. France and the European Enlightenment
• 16. Conclusion: Modern Myths
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography for the Enlightenment
• Index