![]() ![]() The number of studies in the scholarly field has grown rapidly, expressing a renewed interest in the subject. ![]() ![]() Today, with revolutionary passions having apparently been tempered and our relation to technological progress, secularization, and civilizational dialogue put into question, the Enlightenment seems to have picked up the relays and discovered a historical and political actuality. We present the English translation of his essay, which has import far beyond any disciplinary boundaries.įor many years, the French Revolution has served as an origin story: for contemporary France of course, but also for the entirety of a political modernity marked by the horizon of revolutionary emancipation more generally. We have previously written about the debates over the political relevance of the Enlightenment today, drawing on Antoine Lilti’s critical review of the histories of Jonathan Israel. Le Thé à l’anglaise servi dans le salon des Quatre-Glaces au palais du Temple à Paris en 1764, Michel Barthélemy Ollivier, 1766. ![]()
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