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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.