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 philosophy ofthe Enlightenment
The Dutch Republic
The idea of history
Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750
The Great Chain of Being
The western intellectual tradition
The roads to modernity
Radical Enlightenment
The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history
The heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers
The culture of time and space, 1880-1918
A History of Western Philosophy
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of Western Philosophy
Inventing the Individual
The Reformation of the sixteenth century
The courtier and the heretic
The end of the European era
Irrational man
The Modern Mind
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
Elements of Pantheism
A History of Western Philosophy; And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day