Anton M. Matytsin is an assistant professor of history at Kenyon College. He is the author of The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment. Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and a professor of history (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution and The Enlightenment: A Genealogy.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. LuxChapter 1. Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light Chapter 2. Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French EnlightenmentChapter 3. The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public OpinionChapter 4. Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of LightPart II. VeritasChapter 5. Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Chapter 6. A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of PowerChapter 7. Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early-Modern ScholasticismChapter 8. The Aristotelian EnlightenmentPart III: TenebraeChapter 9. Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660–1740Chapter 10. Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century CultureChapter 11. Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 12. Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's EnlightenmentContributorsIndex

This book has many merits. All of its chapters are very original and even groundbreaking in several respects. By employing interdisciplinary approaches that pay due attention to both texts and contexts, the contributors to this volume rediscover and revalue several intellectual currents and figures traditionally neglected by historiography . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] provides excellent food for thought for both specialists in the field and educated lay readers willing to acquire a deeper insight into this fascinating and complex period of human history.—Diego Lucci, American University in Bulgaria, Journal of Jesuit Studies

Anton M. Matytsin is an assistant professor of history at Kenyon College. He is the author of The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment. Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and a professor of history (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution and The Enlightenment: A Genealogy.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. LuxChapter 1. Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light Chapter 2. Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French EnlightenmentChapter 3. The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public OpinionChapter 4. Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of LightPart II. VeritasChapter 5. Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Chapter 6. A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of PowerChapter 7. Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early-Modern ScholasticismChapter 8. The Aristotelian EnlightenmentPart III: TenebraeChapter 9. Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660–1740Chapter 10. Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century CultureChapter 11. Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 12. Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's EnlightenmentContributorsIndex

This book has many merits. All of its chapters are very original and even groundbreaking in several respects. By employing interdisciplinary approaches that pay due attention to both texts and contexts, the contributors to this volume rediscover and revalue several intellectual currents and figures traditionally neglected by historiography . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] provides excellent food for thought for both specialists in the field and educated lay readers willing to acquire a deeper insight into this fascinating and complex period of human history.—Diego Lucci, American University in Bulgaria, Journal of Jesuit Studies

Anton M. Matytsin is an assistant professor of history at Kenyon College. He is the author of The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment. Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and a professor of history (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution and The Enlightenment: A Genealogy.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. LuxChapter 1. Via Lucis in tenebras: Comenius as Prophet of the Age of Light Chapter 2. Whose Light Is It Anyway? The Struggle for Light in the French EnlightenmentChapter 3. The "Lights" before the Enlightenment: The Tribunal of Reason and Public OpinionChapter 4. Writing the History of Illumination in the Siècle des Lumières: Enlightenment Narratives of LightPart II. VeritasChapter 5. Another Dialogue in the Tractatus: Spinoza on "Christ's Disciples" and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Chapter 6. A Backward Glance: Light and Darkness in the Medieval Theology of PowerChapter 7. Lumen unitivum: The Light of Reason and the Aristotelian Sect in Early-Modern ScholasticismChapter 8. The Aristotelian EnlightenmentPart III: TenebraeChapter 9. Secular Sacerdotalism in the Anglican Enlightenment, 1660–1740Chapter 10. Refracting the Century of Lights: Alternate Genealogies of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century CultureChapter 11. Enlightenment in the Shadows: Mysticism, Materialism, and the Dream State in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 12. Light, Truth, and the Counter-Enlightenment's EnlightenmentContributorsIndex

This book has many merits. All of its chapters are very original and even groundbreaking in several respects. By employing interdisciplinary approaches that pay due attention to both texts and contexts, the contributors to this volume rediscover and revalue several intellectual currents and figures traditionally neglected by historiography . . . [Let There Be Enlightenment] provides excellent food for thought for both specialists in the field and educated lay readers willing to acquire a deeper insight into this fascinating and complex period of human history.—Diego Lucci, American University in Bulgaria, Journal of Jesuit Studies