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A review essay on books by (1) Stephen Eric Bonner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia U Press, 2004); (2) Ira Katznelson, Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust (New York: Columbia U Press, 2003); (3) Katherine Labio, Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Press, 2004); & (4) David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham, NC: Duke U Press, 2004).

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- A Note on References -- Introduction and Acknowledgements -- 1 What was the Enlightenment? -- 2 The Goal: A Science of Man -- 3 The Politics of Enlightenment -- 4 Reforming Religion by Reason -- 5 Who was the Enlightenment? -- 6 Unity or Diversity? -- 7 Movement or Mentalité? -- 8 Conclusion: Did the Enlightenment Matter? -- Reading Suggestions -- Index.

part Part I: (Trans) National Perspectives -- chapter 1 Germany: The Straggler as Leader -- chapter 2 Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, and Nationalism in the German and Austrian Enlightenment -- chapter 3 Feeling across Borders: The Europeanization of Russian Nobility through Emotional Patterns -- part Part II: Agents of Cosmopolitanism -- chapter 4 Literary Cosmopolitanism and the Geography of Genius in Eighteenth-Century France -- chapter 5 Spinoza's Impact on Europe -- chapter 6 Cosmopolitan Book Publishing: The Case of the Encyclopedie -- part Part III: Afterlives -- chapter 7 Subjectivity and Cosmopolitan Enlightenment: Music and Don Giovanni -- chapter 8 Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Concept of Progress in Anglo-American Anthropology -- chapter 9 Cosmopolitanism in the Discursive Landscape of Modernity: Two Enlightenment Articulations -- chapter 10 Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: Western or Universal?.

part Part I: So You Think You're an Egalitarian? -- chapter 1 Did Babeuf Deserve the Guillotine? -- chapter 2 A Promise Kept by Accident -- chapter 3 The Bateson Fact, or One in a Million -- part Part II: Why the World is the Way It Is -- chapter 4 The Malthus Check -- chapter 5 Population, Privilege, and Malthus' Retreat -- chapter 6 The Diabolical Place: A Secret of the Enlightenment -- chapter 7 Glimpses of Pioneer Life -- chapter 8 Altruism and Darwinism -- chapter 9 Paralytic Epistemology, or the Soundless Scream -- part Part III: Reclaiming the Jungle -- chapter 10 The Columbus Argument -- chapter 11 Bombs Away -- chapter 12 Jobs for the Girls -- chapter 13 Righting Wrongs -- chapter 14 Why You should be a Conservative.

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha's enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation. Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Alphabetical List of Entries -- Topical List of Entries -- How to Use This Book -- Preface -- Timeline -- Historical Overview -- The Enlightenment: A to Z -- Primary Documents -- BARUCH SPINOZA "On the Nature and Origin of the Emotions," from Ethics (1677) -- JOHN LOCKE "Of the Beginnings of Political Societies," from Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689) -- GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (1717) -- MONTESQUIEU "On Monarchies," from The Spirit of the Laws (1748) -- DAVID HUME An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals (1751) -- DENIS DIDEROT "Enjoyment" (Jouissance), from the Encyclopédie (1751-1765) -- ROUSSEAU From Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755) -- ADAM SMITH From The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) -- VOLTAIRE "Ancients and Moderns," from Philosophical Dictionary (1764) -- CESARE BECCARIA From On Crimes and Punishments (1764) -- CATHERINE THE GREAT From Instructions to the Legislative Commission (1767) -- EDWARD GIBBON From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) -- THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776) -- IMMANUEL KANT From What Is Enlightenment? (1784) -- THOMAS PAINE From The Age of Reason, Part II (1795) -- Key Questions -- QUESTION 1: WAS THERE AN ENLIGHTENMENT FOR WOMEN? -- QUESTION 2: WAS THE ENLIGHTENMENT SECULAR? -- QUESTION 3: WAS THE ENLIGHTENMENT DEMOCRATIC? -- Selected Annotated Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author and Contributors.

The opening of the Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum in 2003 is doubly welcome: first, because it opens up to visitors the debates about the history and purpose of museums; and, secondly, because it puts philosophy and political theory back at the centre of our work. The British Museum has made a major statement about the place of museums in society and should be warmly congratulated for this.