📚 The Enlightenment

The age of reason and its salons: encyclopedias, tolerance, and the ideas every later revolution quoted back.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject enlightenment in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	David Hume	1779	340
	History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe	William Edward Hartpole Lecky	1865	49
	The age of reason (1770-1789)	Harold Nicolson	1960	20
	Who Will Cry When You Die?	Robin S. Sharma	1999	17
	The age of enlightenment	Isaiah Berlin	1956	15
	Enlightenment now	Steven Pinker	2018	12
	Le XVIIIe siècle	Roland Mousnier	1953	11
	The Enlightenment	Norman Hampson	1968	10
	The church and the age of reason, 1648-1789	Gerald R. Cragg	1960	9
	The Cambridge companion to the Scottish Enlightenment	Alexander Broadie	2003	9
	The Enlightenment	Dorinda Outram	1995	8
	Age of enlightenment	Peter Gay	1966	7
	The fellow-travellers; a postscript to the Enlightenment	David Caute	1973	7
	On Enlightenment	David Stove	2002	7
	Scotch Metaphysics	George E. Davie	2002	7
	Counter-Enlightenments	Graeme Garrard	2004	7
	Nature and culture	Lester G. Crocker	1963	6
	The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment	Thaddeus Golas	1972	6
	Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life	Sidney Hook	1974	6
	The way to freedom	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1994	6
	A Wicked Company	Philipp Blom	2010	6
	British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment	Stuart Brown	2012	6
	Enlightenment	Ritchie Robertson	2020	6
	The party of humanity	Peter Gay	1964	5
	Enlightened despotism	John G. Gagliardo	1967	5
	The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason	Christopher McIntosh	1992	5
	Awakening to the Dream	Leo Hartong	2001	5
	When Scotland Ruled the World	Stewart Lamont	2001	5
	Aspects of the enlightenment	Ferenc Horkay Hörcher	2004	5
	Die Epoche der Aufklärung	Annette Meyer	2009	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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