Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment

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Notes

1 Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley, 3 vols. (London, 1994), i. 1001 (ch. XXV).

2 See James A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 525.

3 Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (London: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 192, p. 197.

4 See Stuart Atkins, The Testament of Werther in Poetry and Drama (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949). For a firm judgement on the suicide question, see T. J. Reed, Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020), p. 147.

5 Christopher de Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times (New York: Norton, 2018).