HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
   Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
   Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
   Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Romanticism (1785-1830):
      Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900):
      'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
      Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic
   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
   Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

  

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c. 1600 - c. 1785)

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Feminist:

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Philosophical Aspects of Symbolic Reasoning in Early Modern Science and Mathematics, University of Ghent, August 27-29
  • Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Transylvania, July 26-August 1
  • Tasty Philosophers, Smelly Scientists: Taste and Smell in the Early Modern Period and Beyond, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, May 18
  • Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, February 28-March 1
  • Second Annual North Sea Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, Philosophy Institute, Leiden University, February 13-14
  • Annual Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, January 31-February 1

2008:

  • 5th Annual Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University, October 18-19

  • The Enlightenment: Critique, Myth and Utopia, Finnish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Helsinki, October 17-18

  • The First Leiden-Duke workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Leiden University, September 26-28

  • 8th Conference, Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Transylvania, July 28-August 3

  • Platonism and Aristotelianism in the Moral Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, June 7

  • Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy (NWEMP), Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Estonia, May 31-June 1

  • Philosophy, Science, and Religion, 1650-1730, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, May 2
  • Meaning and Modern Empiricism, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech University, April 11-13
  • Early Modern Epicureanism and Anti-Epicureanism, First Annual North Sea Early Modern philosophy Workshop, Department of Philosophy, Leiden University, April 11-12
  • 'Whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist': the Concepts of Space and Time in the Seventeenth Century, Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit and Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, April 7-8
  • Annual Meeting, Pacific Northwest / Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Washington, February 29-March 2
  • Third Annual Meeting, Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, San Francisco State University, February 23-24
  • Stoicism in the Moral Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment, Department of Philosophy, University of St.
    Andrews, February 23

2007:

2006:

  • Understanding Space and Time: Third NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, New York University, November 10-11

  • Pursuits of Knowledge, NEASECS, Salem State College, November 9-12

  • Preaching and Politics in Early Modern Britain, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, November 3-4

  • Eighth Annual Meeting, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, October 27-28

  • Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, October 21-22

  • The History of the Transcendental Turn, University of London, September 29-30

  • Inaugural Southeast Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Bogazici University, Turkey, August 8-10

  • Disseminating Knowledge in Seventeenth Century: Centres and Peripheries in the Republic of Letters, FME Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest, July 30-August 4

  • Icons and Iconoclasts: the Long Seventeenth Century, 1603-1714, University of Aberdeen, July 20-22

  • New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, June 2-4

  • The Enlightenment Project Revisited, Eastern Regional Meeting, Society for Christian Philosophers, Houghton College, New York, May 18-20

  • 37th Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Montreal, March 30-April 2

  • The Netherlandish Seventeenth Century and its Afterlives, Duke University, March 3

  • Inaugural Conference, Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, February 25-26

2005:

  • Human Nature as the Basis of Morality and Society in Early Modern Philosophy, Centre for Ethics and Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Estonia in cooperation with the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland, December 15-17
  • Annual Conference, Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, November 12-13
  • The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy, Université de Grenoble, 17 au 19 Novembre
  • Fourth Annual Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, Newark, October 29-30
  • Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, October 22-23
  • Annual Meeting, Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, October 15-16
  • Fall Meeting, Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Virginia, October 8-9
  • Seventh Annual Meeting, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Baylor University, September 23-24

  • Second Annual Meeting, Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University and the University of King's College, July 8-10

  • Dialogues and Discourses: Conversing with Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, April 6

  • 36th Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Las Vegas, March 31-April 3

  • Natural Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism, Philosophy Programme, University of London, March 4-5

  • L'Entendement et sa réforme à l'âge classique, Centre d¹Histoire des Systèmes de Pensée Moderne, Centre d¹Études en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idées, et Groupe de Recherche Hongrois sur la Pensée Classique, 11 et 12 février

2004:

  • Scientia in the Early Modern Period, Warburg Institute, University of London, December 11

  • Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity in Modern Philosophy, Inaugural Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, New York University, December 3-5

  • Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 27

  • Cultures of Consumption, Twelfth Annual Conference, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Department of English, Florida State University, November 18-21

  • Third Annual Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Rutgers University, November 6-7

  • Sixth Annual Meeting, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Rice University, October 29-30

  • Imagining the Early Modern Archive, Sixteenth Century Conference, Toronto, October 28-30

  • Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, October 23-24

  • Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), SUNY, Binghamton, October 22-23

  • Interiority in Early Modern England 1500-1700, Department of English, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, October 15-16

  • 'The Mistress-Court of Mighty Europe': Configuring Europe and European Identities in the Early Modern Period: Literature, History, Representation, Department of English, University of Wales, Bangor, UK, September 11-13

  • Joint Meeting, Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy and Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, September 4-5

  • Inaugural Meeting, Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University and the University of King's
    College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 9-11

  • Rationalism, Platonism and God: Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy, Dawes Hicks Symposium, British Academy, May 26

  • Sensibilities, 1660-1832, Princeton Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Princeton University, May 1

    • Inhabiting the Body / Inhabiting the World: an Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 19-20

2003:

2002:

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2001:

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Annual:

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

In Chronological Order:

By Nationality:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

  • Ashgate: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • General:
      • Ariew, Roger, and Eric Watkins, eds.  Modern Philosophy: an Anthology of Primary Sources.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.
      • Ayer, A. J., and Raymond Winch, eds.  British Empirical Philosophers: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid and J. S. Mill.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
      • Berlin, Isaiah, ed.  The Age of the Enlightenment.  New York: Meridian, 1956.
      • Cummins R. and D. Owen eds.  Central Readings in the History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999.
      • Gay, Peter, ed.  The Enlightenment: a Comprehensive Anthology.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.
      • Grimsley, Ronald, ed.  The Age of the Enlightenment.
      • Kolak, Daniel, and Garrett Thomson, eds.  Longman Standard History of Modern Philosophy.  Pearson Longman, 2006.
      • Kramnick, Isaac, ed.  The Portable Enlightenment Reader.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.
      • Schmidt, James, ed.  What is Enlightenment?  Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
      • Taylor, Richard, ed.  The Empiricists.  New York: Anchor, 1960.
      • Taylor, Richard, ed.  The Rationalists.  New York: Anchor, 1960.

    • Minor Figures:

    • Arts:

      • Ashfield, Andrew, and Peter De Bolla, eds.  The Sublime: a Reader in British Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theory.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
      • Spingarn, J. E., ed.  Critical Essays of the XVII Century.  3 Vols. 
      • Womersley, David, ed.  Augustan Critical Writings.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

      • Maimon.  Essay on Transcendental Philosophy.  1790.
    • Minor Figures:
    • Arts:

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Socio-Historical Context:

    • General:

      • Ayers, Michael, ed.  Rationalism, Platonism and God.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.
      • Brown, Stuart, ed.  British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment.  Vol. 5 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1996.
      • Daniel, Stephen H., ed.  Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2005.
      • Garber, Daniel, and Michael Ayers, eds.  Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.

      • Haakonssen, Knud, ed.  Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.  2 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006. [review]

      • Hedley, Douglas, and Sarah Hutton, eds.  Platonism at the Origins of Modernity: Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy.  Dordrecht: Springer, 2008.
      • Kors, Alan Charles, ed.  Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.  4 Vols.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.
      • Mercer, Christia, and Eileen O'Neill, eds.  Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
      • Nadler, Stephen, ed.  A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
      • Parkinson, G. H. R., ed.  The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism.  Vol. 4 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1993.
      • Rutherford, Donald, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
      • Schmidt, James, ed.  What is ENlightenment?  EIghteenth CEntury Answers and Twentieth Century Questions.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
      • Sorell, Tom, ed.  The Rise of Modern Philosophy: the Tension Between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
      • Stewart, M. A., ed.  Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy.  Vol. 2 of Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.
      • Wettstein, Howard, and Peter French, eds.  Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
    • Arts:
      • Nisbet, H. B., and Claude Rawson, eds.  The Eighteenth Century.  Vol. 4 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

    • Human Nature:

    • Knowledge:

      •  

    • Morality:

      •  

    • Nature:

      • Smith, Justin E. H., ed.  The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

    • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Condren, Conal, Stephen Gaukroger, and Ian Hunter, eds.  The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: the Nature of a Contested Identity.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006. [review]
      • Ginzberg, Robert, ed.  The Philosopher as Writer: the Eighteenth Century.  Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, 1987.

    • Religion:

      •  

    • Society:

      • Goldie, Mark, and Robert Wokler, eds.  Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

      • Kahn, Victoria, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli, eds.  Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Socio-Historical Context:
      • Amussen, Susan.  An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. 
      • Hankins, Thomas L.  Science and the Enlightenment.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.
      • Himmelfarb, Gertrude.  The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments.  New York: Vintage, 2004.  Rpt. 2008.
      • Hill, Christopher.  The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. 
      • Hill, Christopher.  Reformation to Industrial Revolution: the Making of Modern English Society, 1530-1780. 
      • Koenigsberger, H. G.  Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789
        • . 
      • Laslett, Peter.  The World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Revolution
        • . 
      • Mah, Harold.  Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.
      • Miller, John.  Popery and Politics in England, 1660-1688. 
      • Munck, Thomas.  Enlightenment: a Comparative Social History, 1721–1794. 
      • Porter, Roy.  English Society in the Eighteenth Century.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
      • Stone, Lawrence.  The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. 
      • Underdown, David.  Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660. 
      • Westphal, Richard S.  The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics.  Cambridge: CUP, 1978.
      • Wrightson, Keith.  English Society, 1580-1680. 
    • General:
      • Baumer, Franklin L.  Modern European Thought: Continuity and Change in Ideas, 1600-1950.  

      • Beck, Lewis W.  Early German Philosophy: Kant and his Predecessors.  Boston: Harvard UP, 1969; 2nd Ed.  London: Thoemmes, 1997.

      • Beck, Lewis W.  "From Leibniz to Kant."  The Age of German Idealism.  Vol. 6 of The Routledge History of Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins.  London: Routledge, 1993.  5-39.

      • Bennett, Jonathan.  Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.
      • Bennett, Jonathan.  Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes.  Oxford: OUP, 1971.

      • Berlin, Isaiah.  "The Philosophers of the Enlightenment."

        • The Power of Ideas.  Ed. Henry Hardy.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.  36-52.

      • Bronner, Stephen Eric.  The Great Divide: the Enlightenment and its Critics. 
      • Bronner, Stephen Eric.  Interpreting the Enlightenment: Metaphysics, Critique, and Politics.  2004
      • Caruth, Cathy.  Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
      • Cassirer, Ernst.  Die Philosophie der Aufklärung. Tübinen: Morh, 1932. 

        • The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.  Trans.  Fritz C. A. Koelln and James P. Pettegrove.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1951.

      • Chadwick, Owen.  The Secularisation of the European Mind. 

      • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: from the French Enlightenment to Kant.   Vol. 6 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1960.
      • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: the British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume.  Vol. 5 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1959. 
      • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: from Descartes to Leibniz.  Vol. 4 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1960. 
      • Copleston, Frederick C.  Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.  Vol. 3 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1953.
      • Cottingham, John.  The Rationalists.  Vol. 4 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1988.
      • Dupre, Louis.  The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2004.
      • Gay, Peter.  The Enlightenment: an Interpretation.  2 Vols.  New York: Norton, 1970.
        • The Science of Freedom.  Vol. 2.  1969.  Rpt. 1996.
        • The Rise of Modern Paganism.  Vo. 1.  1966.  Rpt. 1995.
      • Gordon, Daniel.  Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History.  London: Routledge, 2000.
      • Grayling, A. C.  "Modern Philosophy II: the Empiricists."  Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.  484-544.
      • Greene, Donald.  "Augustinianism and Empiricism: a Note on Eighteenth Century Intellectual History."  Eighteenth Century Studies 1 (1967): 33-68.
      • Hampson, N.  The Enlightenment: an Evaluation of its Assumptions, Attitudes and Values.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
      • Harris, James A.  Of Liberty and Necessity: the Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
      • Hazard, Paul.  European Thought in the Eighteenth Century. 
      • Hulluing, Mark.  Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes.  1994.

      • Israel, Jonathan.  Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.

      • Jacob, Margaret C.  The Enlightenment: a Brief History With Documents.  New York: Bedford, 2001.
      • Jacob, Margaret C.  "Newtonianism and the Origins of the Enlightenment: a Reassessment."  Eighteenth Century Studies 11 (1977): 1-25.
      • Kenny, Anthony.  The Rise of Modern Philosophy.  Vol. 3 of A New History of Western Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2006.
      • Koselleck, Reinhart.  Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.

      • Labio, Catherine.  Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

      • LoLordo, Antonia.  Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
      • Louden, Robert B.  The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us.  Oxford: OUP, 2007.
      • Martin, M. G. F., et al.  "Modern Philosophy."  Philosophy Study Guide.  London: Aristotelian Society, 1997.  64-78. 
      • Outram, Dorinda.  The Enlightenment.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
      • Porter, Roy.  The Creation of the Modern World: the Untold Story of the British Enlightenment.  New York: Norton, 2001.
      • Porter, Roy.  The Enlightenment.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
      • Schmidt, James.  What Is Enlightenment?  Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
      • Scruton, Roger.  "Modern Philosophy I: the Rationalists and Kant."  Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.  440-483.
      • Thomson, Garrett.  Bacon to Kant: an Introduction to Modern Philosophy.  Waveland, 2001.
      • Waxman, Wayne.  Kant and the Empiricists: Understanding Understanding.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
      • Willey, Basil.  The Eighteenth Century Background: Studies on the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1940.
      • Willey, Basil.  The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion.  London: Chatto and Windus, `934.
      • Woolhouse, R. S.  The Empiricists.  Vol. 5 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1988.
    • Minor Figures:
      • Mander, W. J.  The Philosophy of John Norris.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.
    • Arts:
      • Atkins, J. W. H.  English Literary Criticism: the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
      • Crane, R. S.  "English Neoclassical Criticism: an Outline Sketch."  Dictionary of World Literature.  Ed. Joseph T. Shipley.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1943. 
        • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  372-388.
      • Daiches, David.  "Imitation and Instruction."  Critical Approaches to Literature.  New York: Norton, 1956.  73-89.
      • Harland, Richard.  "The Rise and Fall of Neoclassicism."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes: an Introductory History.  Basingstoke:Palgrave, 1999.  29-59.

      • Kallich, M.  "The Association of Ideas and Critical Theory: Hobbes, Locke and Addison."  Journal of English Literary History 12 (1945): 290-315.

      • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Rhetoric and Neo-Classic Wit."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  221-251.

      • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Genius, Emotion, and Association."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  283-312.

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

      • Hobbs, Catherine L.  Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

      • Howell, Wilbur S.  Eighteenth Century British Logic and Rhetoric.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.

      • Howell, Wilbur S.  Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1956.

      • Law, Jules David.  The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I. A. Richards.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

      • Robins, R. H.  "The Eve of Modern Times."  A Short History of Linguistics.  New York: Longman, 1967.  4th Ed. 1997.  152-188.

      • Todorov, Tzvetan.  "The End of Rhetoric," "The Misfortunes of Imitation" and "Imitation and Motivation."  Theories of the Symbol.  Trans. Catherine Porter.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982.  84-110, 111-128 and 129-146.

    • Human Nature:

      • Hight, Marc A.  Idea and Ontology: an Essay in Early Modern Metaphysics of Ideas.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2008.
      • Melehy, Hassan.  Writing Cogito: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject. 
      • Porter, Roy.  Flesh in the Age of Reason: the Modern Foundations of Body and Soul.  New York: Norton, 2004.
      • Seigel,  Jerrold.  The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
      • Wahrman, Dror.  The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth Century England.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2004.

    • Knowledge:

      • Spolsky, Ellen.  Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.

    • Metaphilosophy:

      • Daniel, Stephen H.  Myth and Modern Philosophy.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989.

      • Hunter, Ian.  Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

      • Richetti, John J.  Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1983.

    • Morality:

      • Darwall, Stephen.  The British Moralists and the Internal Ought, 1640-1740.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
      • Gill, Michael B.  The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
      • Jones, Matthew L.  The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
      • Schneewind, J. B.  The Invention of Autonomy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
      • Selby-Bigge, L. A.  The British Moralists.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1897; 1964.

    • Nature:

      •  

    • Religion:

      •  

    • Social Formation:

      • Becker, Carl.  The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers.  Yale: Nota Bene, .
      • Kahn, Victoria.  Wayward Contracts: the Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004.
      • Rousseau, G. S.  "Science and the Discovery of the Imagination in Enlightened England."  Eighteenth Century Studies 3 (1969): 108-135.

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