Transactions of the Fifth International Congress on The Enlightenment / Actes du Cinquième Congrès International des Lumières / Atti del Quinto Congresso Internazionale Sull'illuminiso

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Contents of volume 1

Inaugural addresses

Plenary sessions

1. The Enlightenment: problems of periodisation

2. Present-day viewpoints on the Enlightenment

3. The 'philosophes' and politics

4. The sciences and epistemology

Contents of volume 2

5. Reflecting upon history

6. Utopias and utopians

7. The sciences of society

8. The beginnings and development of political economy

9. Crisis and reform in the social institutions

10. Collective mentalities

Contents of volume 3

11. Religious trends

12. Anthropology and linguistics

13. Narrative theories and techniques

14. Dramatic forms and structures

Contents of volume 4

15. Poetry and poetics

16. Music and the figurative arts

17. The spread and social impact of books and culture

18. The portrayal and condition of women in eighteenth-century literature