Table of Contents

A blind spot? the birth of an ideology; clearing away the rubbish; print culture; nationalising religion; the culture of science; anatomising human nature; the science of politics; secularising; modernising; happiness; from good sense to sensibility; nature; did the mind have a sex? education - a panacea; the vulgar; the pursuit of wealth; reform; progress; the revolutionary era - "modern philosophy"; lasting light?

Promotional Information

S 2001 British Academy Book Prize

About the Author

Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.