Abstract
A review essay on books by (1) Stephen Bronner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia U Press, 2004); (2) Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments (New York: Knopf, 2004); (3) Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2001); & (4) Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment against Empire (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2003).