The Enlightenment in France and the rise of the bourgeoisie
The double-edged sword: Voltaire
Paranoia to politics: Rousseau
Warning signs: Hume and Sade
In the name of humanity: the French Revolution
The Enlightenment in Germany: Kant's transcendental revolution
The poetry of self-realization: Goethe and his Faust
"The finest man since Caesar": Napoleon and revolutionary despotism
The good, the beautiful and the ugly: David and Goya
The romance of classicism: the phantom of the ancients
The universal in action: G.W.F. Hegel
The highest wisdom, the purest speech: Beethoven
The classic/romanticism game: Ingres and Delacroix
Dull times: the romantic reaction
From poetry to revolution: the young Marx
The singular universal: Søren Kierkegaard
Concluding post-Enlightenment subscript: the problem of "humanity" and the "end of man."
