In this volume twelve scholars from different disciplines reassess the tradition and reception
of the eighteenth-century European Enlightenment. The contributions written in English and
French pay special attention to less known or relatively neglected aspects of this
intellectual movement revealing features that cannot easily be reduced to the clichés and
catchphrases often associated with the Enlightenment. The volume emphasises the historically
and geographically versatile heritage of the Enlightenment examining its intellectual
repercussions the various uses and abuses it has been subjected to and its complex
relationship with more recent movements.
