What to Read After The Enlightenment
Readers who loved The Enlightenment by Peter Gay keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Enlightenment is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Enlightenment
From Dawn to Decadence
The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France
The Dutch Republic
The Western Intellectual Tradition
Radical Enlightenment
The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
The philosophy ofthe Enlightenment
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers
The Roads to Modernity
The Great Chain of Being
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
The Idea of History
Pursuit of Glory
A History of Western Philosophy
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
The Age of Voltaire
The Reformation of the sixteenth century
A History of Western Philosophy; And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Irrational man
Elements of Pantheism
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
The end of the European era
The Flame of a Candle