Plans for Enlightenment

Please go to http://oyc.yale.edu/history/european-civilization-1648-1945/content/downloads and watch "The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere".

Here are your Primary Sources on The Enlightenment. Please start reading 'Candide' by Voltaire. It is a short book; I will expect you to complete it by next Monday.

Primary Sources

Denis Diderot (1713-1784): Encyclopedie; Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English; Voltaire (1694-1778): Candide, 1759; Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755):The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, 1755; Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1763; Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal; Condorcet (1743-94): On the Future Progress of the Human Mind, 1794; Adam Smith (1723-90): The Wealth of Nations; David Hume: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature; Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Critique of Pure Reason, 1781; Daniel Defoe: On The Education Of Women, 1719; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Selected Prose and Poetry; John Locke (1632-1704): An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Jeremy Bentham: Defence of Usury, 1787; James Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson

Philosophy/Historiography: Michel Foucault (1926-84): What is Enlightenment?

Visual Sources

Britain and Ireland: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=09&region=euwb

Germany: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=09&region=euwc

France: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=09&region=euwf