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Cover -- The Enlightenment: An Idea And Its History -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Why Is The Enlightenment A Problem? -- The History Of Ideas And Its Discontents -- Did Practice Precede Principle? -- The Twilight Of The Categories -- The One Shall Be Taken, And The Other Left: Choosing Teams -- 'mehr Licht!' European Linguistic Usage -- The Structure Of The Book -- Part I Absences? -- Introduction -- 1: Was The Enlightenment A Social Practice? -- Science And Society -- Jürgen Habermas -- The English Coffee House And Sociability The Spectator, The Free-holder, And Politeness -- Coffee Houses And Other Organizations -- The French Salons -- The Culture Of Literacy -- 2: Was The Enlightenment Invented In France? -- Linguistic Usage -- British Outsiders And French Insiders -- The Encyclopédie As The Key Text Of The Enlightenment -- Theology: D'alembert And Diderot -- D'alembert's Manifesto -- Diderot's Manifesto -- Rousseau's First Discourse -- Rousseau And Diderot -- Rousseau And Voltaire -- Voltaire And His Reception In England -- Rousseau's Social Ideals -- Rousseau And Hume -- French Philosophy After Rousseau 3: What Was English Discourse? -- 'liberalism': An Import From Spain? -- 'philosophy': The Primacy Of Christian Stoicism? -- 'progress': Travelling Without Arriving? -- 'enlightenment': An Import From Germany? -- 4: Did Anglophone Philosophers Design 'the Enlightenment'? -- Thomas Stanley And The Nature Of Philosophy -- John Locke: Natural Rights And Religion -- Locke And Toleration -- Locke's Two Treatises Of Government -- Locke's An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding -- Locke, Human Nature, And Self-evidence -- David Hume: Philosophy And History -- Hume's Social Context Hume's Philosophy And The Science Of Man -- Hume's Essays And Related Works -- Hume's History: Its Premises And Purposes -- Hume's Science Of Man And Public Events -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Virtue, And Equality -- William Godwin And