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Eighteenth century

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• Civilization, Modern -- 18th century
• Enlightenment

• The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Ferenc Feher (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)
• Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections Upon a Deeper Purpose to Living, by Belzebuub (Epub and Mobi with commentary at belsebuub.com)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), ed. by Caroline Warman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment, Presented to George R. Havens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), ed. by Charles G. S. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic Thought of the French Enlightenment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1971), by Francis X. J. Coleman (page images at Pitt)
• Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968), by Robert Darnton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Creative Commons reprint; multiple formats at archive.org

• The "Tzemach Tzedek" and the Haskalah Movement, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (HTML at jewish-history.com)

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