The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the
Enlightenment's "evil" or "liberating" potential in the French
Revolution finds present-day parallels in the battle between those
who see the Enlightenment at the origins of modernity's many ills,
such as imperialism, racism, misogyny, and totalitarianism, and
those who see it as having forged an age of democracy, human
rights, and freedom. The essays collected by Charles Walton in Into
Print paint a more complicated picture. By focusing on print
culture--the production, circulation, and reception of
Enlightenment thought--they show how the Enlightenment was shaped
through practice and reshaped over time.
These essays expand upon an approach to the study of the
Enlightenment pioneered four decades ago: the social history of
ideas. The contributors to Into Print examine how writers,
printers, booksellers, regulators, police, readers, rumormongers,
policy makers, diplomats, and sovereigns all struggled over that
broad range of ideas and values that we now associate with the
Enlightenment. They reveal the financial and fiscal stakes of the
Enlightenment print industry and, in turn, how Enlightenment ideas
shaped that industry during an age of expanding readership. They
probe the limits of Enlightenment universalism, showing how demands
for religious tolerance clashed with the demands of science and
nationalism. They examine the transnational flow of Enlightenment
ideas and opinions, exploring its domestic and diplomatic
implications. Finally, they show how the culture of the
Enlightenment figured in the outbreak and course of the French
Revolution.
Aside from the editor, the contributors are David A. Bell, Roger
Chartier, Tabetha Ewing, Jeffrey Freedman, Carla Hesse, Thomas M.
Luckett, Sarah Maza, Renato Pasta, Thierry Rigogne, Leonard N.
Rosenband, Shanti Singham, and Will Slauter.
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