Publisher's Synopsis
Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are not available for purchase.
Contents of volume 1
Inaugural addresses
Plenary sessions
1. The Enlightenment: problems of periodisation
2. Present-day viewpoints on the Enlightenment
3. The 'philosophes' and politics
4. The sciences and epistemology
Contents of volume 2
5. Reflecting upon history
6. Utopias and utopians
7. The sciences of society
8. The beginnings and development of political economy
9. Crisis and reform in the social institutions
10. Collective mentalities
Contents of volume 3
11. Religious trends
12. Anthropology and linguistics
13. Narrative theories and techniques
14. Dramatic forms and structures
Contents of volume 4
15. Poetry and poetics
16. Music and the figurative arts
17. The spread and social impact of books and culture
18. The portrayal and condition of women in eighteenth-century literature
