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Isaac Newton · Enlightenment · Science, mathematics
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Enlightenment
Explore 66 works associated with Enlightenment in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
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Two Treatises of Government
John Locke · Enlightenment · Political philosophy
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satirical fiction
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Candide
Voltaire · Enlightenment · Satirical novella
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Enlightenment · Political philosophy
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · Enlightenment · Economics
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · Enlightenment · History
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Enlightenment · Autobiography
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Ethics
Discourse on Metaphysics
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · Enlightenment · Philosophy / mathematics
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satire / essays
The Battle of the Books
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satire / essays
Theodicy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · Enlightenment · Philosophy / mathematics
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley · Enlightenment · Philosophy
An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope · Enlightenment · Poetry / satire
The Spectator
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele · Enlightenment · Essays / periodical
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope · Enlightenment · Poetry / satire
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Monadology
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · Enlightenment · Philosophy / mathematics
Persian Letters
Montesquieu · Enlightenment · Political philosophy
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel / journalism
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel / journalism
Roxana
Daniel Defoe · Enlightenment · Novel / journalism
The New Science
Giambattista Vico · Enlightenment · Philosophy of history
Fantomina
Eliza Haywood · Enlightenment · Novel
The Beggar’s Opera
John Gay · Enlightenment · Drama, satire
The Dunciad
Alexander Pope · Enlightenment · Poetry / satire
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift · Enlightenment · Satire / essays
Pamela
Samuel Richardson · Enlightenment · Novel
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding · Enlightenment · Novel
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
Jonathan Edwards · Enlightenment · Theology / philosophy
The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu · Enlightenment · Political philosophy
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson · Enlightenment · Novel
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding · Enlightenment · Novel
The Rambler
Samuel Johnson · Enlightenment · Essays / criticism
Freedom of the Will
Jonathan Edwards · Enlightenment · Theology / philosophy
A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson · Enlightenment · Essays / criticism
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke · Enlightenment · Political thought
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · Enlightenment · Novel
Rameau’s Nephew
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
An Inquiry into the Human Mind
Thomas Reid · Enlightenment · Philosophy
On Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria · Enlightenment · Political and legal thought
New Essays on Human Understanding
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · Enlightenment · Philosophy / mathematics
Laocoön
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Enlightenment · Drama / criticism
A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne · Enlightenment · Novel
D’Alembert’s Dream
Denis Diderot · Enlightenment · Philosophy / fiction
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Phillis Wheatley · Enlightenment · Poetry
Evelina
Fanny Burney · Enlightenment · Novel / diary
The Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay
Fanny Burney · Enlightenment · Novel / diary
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Samuel Johnson · Enlightenment · Essays / criticism
Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Enlightenment · Drama / criticism
What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant · Enlightenment · Philosophy
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano · Enlightenment · Autobiography
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Mary Wollstonecraft · Enlightenment · Political philosophy
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke · Enlightenment · Political thought
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