Most of the primary texts are available for free on the internet in different old editions. Students can decide whether they want to use such editions or buy modern ones.
A version of the readings marked with * will be made available for students at the start of the term.
Secondary Literature
Pocock, J. G. A., ”Clergy and Commerce. The Conservative Enlightenment in England”, i L’età dei Lumi. Studi storici sul settecento europeo in onore di Franco Venturi. Volumo primo, Napoli: Jovene editore, 1985.
*Robertson, John, The Enlightenment. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015.
*Schaanning, Espen, Lykkens politikk. Fransk opplysningstid og synet på menneske og straff hos Helvetius, Unipub 2013, Kap. 4 Erkjennelse og moral, s. 99-142.
Or:
Thomson, Ann, Bodies of Thought. Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment, Oxford: OUP, 2007.
Primary Texts – Great Britain
*Addison, Joseph og Richard Steele, The Spectator, 1711-1712. Read essay no. 1-2, 10, 21, 69, 104, 119, 128, 219, 292.
*Ferguson, Adam, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, 1767. Read part 4-6. Modern edition edited by Fania Oz-Salzberger, in the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, CUP, 1995.
*Hume, David, The Natural History of Religion, 1757. In Norwegian in David Hume, Om religion, trans. Petter Nafstad, Oslo, 2002, 128-186.
*Mandeville, Bernard, Fable of the Bees, Vol. I, 1723. Read “The Preface”, “The Grumbling Hive”, “An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue” and Remarks C, F, G, I, K, L, M, N, O, Q, T og Y. All of this in the modern edition published by Hackett Publishing, edited by E. J. Hundert, 1997.
*Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations, 1776. Read Book 1, Chap.. 1-4, Book 3, Chap. 1-4. Numerous recent and less recent editions.
Primary Texts – France
Châtelet, Emilie du, Discours sur le bonheur (ca. 1745,posthum. Paris 1779), English translation by Isabelle Bour and Judith P. Zinsser, Discourse on Happiness, in Emilie Du Châtelet, Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings, UCP 2009 (17 p.). Finnes også på norsk av Solveig Schult Ulriksen, “Om lykke”, i Arr idéhistorisk tidsskrift 1/2009.
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain (posthum. 1795), 9ème et 10ème époques, English translation 1802 (online Library of Liberty http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/condorcet-outlines-of-an-historical-view-of-the-progress-of-the-human-mind or reprint in Forgotten Books series), Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind, Ninth and Tenth Epoch.
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, L'homme machine (anon., Netherlands 1747), several English translations and editions, f.ex La Mettrie, Machine Man and Other Writings, trans. And ed. by Ann Thomson, CUP 1996.
Mercier, Louis Sébastien, Tableau de Paris (Neuchâtel 1781-1788), selection of ca 150 p. from Mercier, Panorama of Paris, translated by Helen Simpson and Jeremy D. Popkin, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Utvalg på norsk av Ellen Krefting i Mercier, Tablå over Paris, Unipub 2010.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, « Lettre à Voltaire sur la Providence » (1756), English translation by David Wooton, « Letter to Voltaire on Optimism », in Candide : And related Writings, Hackett 2000.
Voltaire, “Poème du désastre de Lisbonne” (1756), English translation by David Wooton, “Preface to the poem” and “Poem on the Lisbon Disaster” in Candide: and related writings, Hackett 2000.