Enlightenment and Sentiment
Social History and EnlightenmentBackground Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, pp. 14-23, 37-39.Discussion: 14 September 2007 (second assignment due)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts (1750), also sometimes called Rousseau's First Discourse. This is in the library (in both the Basic Political Writings and the Collected Works of Rousseau) and IUCAT also includes links to on-line reproductions of the eighteenth-century editions. It is also conveniently available on-line in a more contemporary translation.
Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment? (1784) available on-line.
Further Reading
Roger Chartier, Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (1991).
Tom Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-century Paris (1985).
Robert Darnton, The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982).
Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (1969), 2 vols.
Sarah Maza, Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (1993).
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment (1994).
Jessica Riskin, Science in the Age of Sensibility (2002).
Robert Darnton, "An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris,"--a very interesting article that uses new media to explain old ones.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1766—account of life and works at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws (1748)