Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment Enlightenment Classics Read, Re-read and Re-written: Gary Kates’s The Books that Made the European Enlightenment

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley, 3 vols. (London, 1994), i. 1001 (ch. XXV).2 See James A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 525.3 Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (London: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 192, p. 197.4 See Stuart Atkins, The Testament of Werther in Poetry and Drama (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949). For a firm judgement on the suicide question, see T. J. Reed, Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020), p. 147.5 Christopher de Bellaigue, The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times (New York: Norton, 2018).