Lifelong teaching

Exciting news today for our Enlightenment Now class: on July 13 my old friend (and Best Man 28 years ago this past Sunday) Professor Daryl Hale--just retired from a teaching career at Western Carolina University--has agreed to zoom with the class in my absence, pinch-hitting while I'm at my Baseball in Literature and Culture conference in Ottawa KS... (continues)

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FYI, a reading list from Professor Hale's syllabus:

Recommended (not required) Definitive Editions of Other Primary Sources:

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses, ed. Susan Dunn; Yale 2002
• David Hume, Writings on Religion, ed. Antony Flew; Open Court 1996
• John Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding, ed. P. H. Nidditch; Oxford U. Press 1979
• Philosophical Writings of Descartes, ed. John Cottingham, et al.; Cambridge U. Press 1999
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. Werner Pluhar; Hackett 1996
• Toward Perpetual Peace, and Other Writings on Politics, Peace & History; Yale 2006;
• KANT’s Observations and Remarks, ed. Susan Meld Shell, Richard Velkley, Cambridge 2012

[N. B.: Yale U. Press’s Re-Thinking the Western Tradition series gives primary & secondary sources together.]

Additional Helpful Resources: Articles/Essays, Surveys by Scholars of the Enlightenment--

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- helpful website The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards
• The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
• Karl Ameriks, Kant and the Historical Turn, Oxford 2006
• James MacGregor Burns, Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed our World, Dunne 2013
• James M. Byrne, Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes to Kant, Westminster Press 1996
• Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
• Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, Harvard Belknap 2006
• John Cottingham, Descartes 1986; How to Read Descartes 2008 [brilliant expositions of Descartes!!!]
• Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (I); The Science of Freedom (II), Norton 1966, 1969
• Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, Liveright 2016
• John Hare, God and Morality: A Philosophical History, Wiley Blackwell 2009
• Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography, Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
• Jonathan Israel, Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, Emancipation 1670-1752, Oxford 2006;
• Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, Human Rights, Oxford 2008; A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and Origins of Modern Democracy, Princeton U. Press 2010
• Lisa Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, Doubleday 1999
• Anthony Kenny, The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Vol. III New History of Western Philosophy), Oxford 2006;
• The Enlightenment: A Very Brief History SPCK 2017
• Robert Louden, The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us Oxford 2007
• Louden & Zöller, ed., Anthropology, History, and Education (Works of Kant), Cambridge 2007
• Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought Princeton 2002; Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists Harcourt 2008; Why Grow Up: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age 2015
• Susan Meld Shell, The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant’s Philosophy and Politics 1980; Kant and the Limits of Autonomy 2009
• Victor Nuovo, ed. John Locke: Writings on Religion, Oxford U. Press 2002
• Onora O’Neill, Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant’s Practical Philosophy, Cambridge 1989;
• Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning, Cambridge 1996
• Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Bayle, Oxford 2003; The High Road to Pyrrhonism
• Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, U. Chicago Press 1990
• Keith Ward, The Case for Religion, Ch. 10: ‘Matters of Morality’ (84-91), Oneworld 2004
• Catherine Wilson, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity, Oxford 2008
• Margaret Wilson, Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy, Princeton U. Press 1999
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, John Locke and the Ethics of Belief;Thomas Reid and Story of Epistemology, CUP 1996, 2001
• John Yolton, ed., Philosophy, Religion, and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries, U. Rochester Press 1990