Enlightenment (overviews & introductions)

Print:

• Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
• Rousseau’s Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds
• The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
• Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh’s Moment of the Mind  by James Buchan
• The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists & Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason by John Fleming

Online:

• British Museum Enlightenment Gallery
• The Age of Enlightenment – Princeton.edu
• The Enlightenment – Fordham university, Internet History Sourcebook
• Stanford History of Philosophy: Enlightenment
• Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?

Bluestockings, Incorrigibles & the Age of the Salon

Print:

• The Age of Conversation, by Benedetta Craveri
• The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment by Dena Goodman
• Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism by Elizabeth Eger
• Madame Du Deffand and World by Benedetta Craveri

Online:

• Penny Magazine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1832-1845
• The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833-1843
• Maps, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
• History of the San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute
• PT Barnum “The Art of Getting Money” lecture from his Lyceum days, Project Gutenberg
• The History and Meaning of Salons
• Les Précieuses Ridicules by Molière (English Translation), Project Gutenberg

Bodhi svāhā! Eastern “Enlightenment” as Subversive Challenge

Print:

• Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition by Christopher D. Wallis
• Consciousness is Everything: The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism by Shankarānanda
• The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Bodhi
• The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment by Adyashanti
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
• Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing: Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy by Jed McKenna
• Gateless Gatecrashers by Ilona Ciunaite and Elena Nezhinsky

Coffee to Print: The Beans That Gave us Papers

Print:

• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergast
• Coffee: A Dark History by Anthony Wild
• The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Steward Lee Allen
• The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse by Brian Cowan

Online:

• “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee” by Balzac
• The History of Coffee – National Coffee Association

The Book of Everything

Print:

• Diderot and the Encyclopædists, Volume II by John Morley
• Enlightening the World: Encyclopedie, The Book That Changed the Course of History by Philipp Blom
• Memorable Quotations from Denis Diderot compiled and edited by Jim Dell
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
• The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia by Andrew Lih

Online:

• The ARTFL Encyclopédie Project
• Banning Information in 18th Century France (OSU)
• Internet encyclopedia of Philosophy
• British Humanist Society
• History of Wikipedia

Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Feminism, Grandmother of Frankenstein

Print:

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Moral and Political Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792.
• Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1787.
• Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin, 1798
• Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Lyndall Gordon
• Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Women’s Rights by Miriam Brody
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

 Online:

• Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader: Series Two. Chapter 13
• Works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Project Gutenberg

Experimental Science & the Rise of Societies

Print:

• Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine
• The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
• The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, by Jenny Uglow
• Baroque Cycle Series by Neal Stephenson (fiction)

Online:

• History of the Royal Society
• Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton, Project Gutenberg

Voltaire & the Rise of Snark

Print:

• France in Modern Times by Gordon Wright
• Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture (Brief Third Edition) (Vol. 2) Joshua Cole, Carol Symes, Judith Coffin, Robert Stacey
• Candide: Or Optimism by Francois Voltaire
• The Portable Voltaire edited by Ben Bay Redman
• Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment by David Bodanis

Online:

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Voltaire
• Leibniz vs. Voltaire: Can an Omnipotent, All-Benevolent God be Reconciled with this World of Suffering?
• Hyperallergic – A Brief History of Popular Satire
• University of Oxford – Voltaire and Enlightenment
• California State University – The Philosophies of Enlightenment
• Stanford University – Voltaire
• Yale Press – Introduction Candide, Voltaire, and the Enlightenment, by Johnson Kent Wright
• Works by Voltaire, Project Gutenberg

Printable PDF version, books only>

For each salon, we  invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Chris Carrico, Amy Widdowson, Jade Hoffman, Ryan Galiotto, and Christopher Wallis. Thank you guys!