Introduction : the enlightenment and its future -- Cosmopolitan imagining : Montesquieu's Persian letters -- In celebration of not knowing : Voltaire's voices -- Hume's sceptic -- As seen by others : Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments -- 'Changing the common mode of thinking' : d'Alembert and Diderot on the encyclopedia -- The attractions of instability : Diderot's Rameau's nephew -- Kantian cosmopolitanism : perpetual peace
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A new study of the place of Enlightenment thought in intellectual history and of its continued relevance. Offers original readings of a range of key texts, which highlight the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers enacted in their writing - and reflected on - the interplay of intellect, imagination, and emotion