Daniel Brewer

Lights in Space

Recent disciplinary reconfigurations have shifted focus from a temporal-historical explanation of social life to one designed to investigate the latters spatial dimension. This article examines the development of various spaces in the eighteenth century—physical, social, colonized, epistemological, and esthetic—and proposes a mode of cultural analysis and of historical understanding relating to the eighteenth century that takes account of these disicplinary shifts.

The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Chronology 1. The Enlightenment today? Daniel Brewer 2. Private lives, public space: a new social history of the Enlightenment Antoine Lilti 3. Anthropology Andrew Curran 4. Commerce Paul Cheney 5. Science J. B. Shank 6. Political thought Dan Edelstein 7. Sex and gender, feeling and thinking: imagining women as intellectuals Julie Candler Hayes 8. Religion Charly Coleman 9. Art and aesthetic theory: claiming Enlightenment as viewers and critics Jennifer Milam 10. Enlightenment literature Thomas DiPiero 11. Philosophe/philosopher Stephane Van Damme 12. Music Downing A. Thomas 13. Architecture and the Enlightenment Anthony Vidler 14. Medicine and the body in the French Enlightenment Anne Vila 15. Space, geography, and the global French Enlightenment Charles W. J. Withers Guide to further reading.