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• Rationality: From AI to Zombies (2015), by Eliezer Yudkowsky (HTML at readthesequences.com)
• Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hent de Vries, trans. by Geoffrey A. Hale (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (1954), by Thomas Paine, ed. by Joseph Lewis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Christianity Not Mysterious: or, A Treatise Shewing That There is Nothing in the Gospel Contrary to Reason, Nor Above It, and That No Christian Doctrine Can be Properly Call'd a Mystery (second edition enlarged; London: Printed for S. Buckley, 1696), by John Toland (multiple formats at Google)
• Essays of a Biologist (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old (1813), by George Bethune English (Gutenberg text)
• History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (4th edition in 2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (revised edition in 2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919), by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (HTML at libertyfund.org)
• Rationalism (London: Constable and Co., 1912), by J. M. Robertson (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Rationalism, by E. Haldeman-Julius (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Theological Works of Thomas Paine (with a life of Paine by Blanchard; Chicago: Belford, Clarke, and Co.; St. Louis: Belford and Clarke, 1882), by Thomas Paine, contrib. by Calvin Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Discourses on the Religion of Reason, by Gerrit Smith (page images at MOA)
• Towards an Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project (London and New York: Cassell, c1997), by Takēs Phōtopoulos (PDF with commentary at inclusivedemocracy.org)
• Broken Lights: An Inquiry Into the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Religious Faith (London: Trübner and Co., 1864), by Frances Power Cobbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Claims of Christianity Examined from a Rationalist Standpoint, by Charles Watts (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Diegesis: Being A Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1860), by Robert Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Pebbles From the Brook: A Reply to "A Defence of Christianity", Written by Edward Everett (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1824), by George Bethune English (Gutenberg text)
• Joseph McCabe: Fighter for Freethought, by Isaac Goldberg (HTML at infidels.org)
• A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Channing, Relative to His Two Sermons on Infidelity (based on the 1813 edition), by George Bethune English (Gutenberg text)
• The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; et al., 1859), by Henry Longueville Mansel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; et al., 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Men, Women and Gods, and Other Lectures (12th edition; New York: Truth Seeker Co., c1885), by Helen H. Gardener, contrib. by Robert Green Ingersoll (Gutenberg text)
• The Rationalist's Manual, by M. D. Aletheia (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Three Impostors, Translated (With Notes and Comments) From a French Manuscript of the Work Written in the Year 1716, With a Dissertation on the Original Treatise, and a Bibliography of the Various Editions (editorship attributed to Briggs; 1904), ed. by Samuel Briggs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Wilhelm von Humboldts Geschichtliche Weltanschauung im Lichte des Klassischen Subjektivismus der Denker und Dichter von Königsberg, Jena, und Weimar (Leipziger Studien aus dem Gebiet der Geschichte, v. 7 #3, in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1901), by Otto Kittel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Reason in Religion, by Frederic Henry Hedge (page images at MOA)
• Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth, by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (HTML at alislam.org)
• Historias de la Corte Celestial, por un Sacristan Jubilado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imprenta popular, ca. 1891), by Narciso Campillo y Correa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romanism and Rationalism as Opposed to Pure Christianity (London and Edinburgh: A. Strahan and Co., 1863), by John Cairns (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Plea for the Critical Study of the Scriptures, Against Romanism and Rationalism (Pittsburgh: Shryock and Hacke, 1852), by Melancthon W. Jacobus (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reason: The Only Oracle of Man, by Ethan Allen (HTML at infidels.org)

• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Freedom of Thought (c1913), by J. B. Bury (Gutenberg text)

• The New Moral World (full serial archives)
• The Open Road (Society of the Universal Brotherhood of Man periodical), ed. by Bruce Calvert (partial serial archives)

• Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Visuality's Romantic Genealogies (2014), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley and Jill H. Casid (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Philosophy and Culture (2008), ed. by Rei Terada (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Romantic Frictions (2011), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (London: MayFlyBooks, 2009), by Herbert Marcuse, trans. by Jeremy J. Shapiro (PDF at monoskop.org)

• No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe (c2001), by Matt Young (PDF at mines.edu)
• The Scepticism of British Empiricism (handwritten University of Michigan masters' thesis; 1889), by Elisha M. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Empirical Philosophy, by John Anderson (HTML at SETIS)

• The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by S. J. Barnett (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Nature and Culture: Ethical Thought in the French Enlightenment (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lester G. Crocker (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• An Age of Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought (originally published 1959; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lester G. Crocker (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Faith of Reason: The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment (New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University 1948), by Charles Frankel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Enlightenment Against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Remy G. Saisselin (HTML at UC Press)
• Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (annotated 1784 German text and modern English translation), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Stephen Orr (HTML with commentary at github.io)
• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)

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