Anticipations of the Enligbtenment in England, France and Germany / Ed. by Alan Charles Kors and Paul J. Korshin.

Index: p. 285-290

Cont.:1.Reading Pierre bayle in Paris. 2."A first being, of whom we have no proof". 3.Pieree Nicole, Jansenism, and the moorality of Enlightend self-interest. 4.Shaftesbury's optimism and eighteenth -century social. 5.Who's afraid of Christian Wolff? 6.Scientific culture in the early English Enlightenment:mechanismus, industry, and gentlemanly facts. 7. Science and literature in the early German Enlightenment. 8.The gallant novel and German Enlightenment, 1670-1750. 9.The pattern is perceived and the seed is sown. 10.Sappho,Souls, and the salic law of wit. 11."The young , the ignorant, and the idle" : some notes on readers and the beginnings of the english novel.