Enlightenment Philosophy in a Nutshell

Enlightenment Philosophy in a Nutshell explains the key ideas of the great philosophers of the enlightenment in an accessible, easy to understand format. With helpful summaries of the main philosophical concepts, biographies of key individuals, and a few words on their relevance today, it provides an essential introduction to enlightenment philosophy. The Philosophy in a Nutshell series brings the great ideas of the past to the modern reader in an accessible, clear format. Includes information on all of the most famous enlightenment philosophers, from David Hume to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jane O'Grady is one of the founders of the London School of Philosophy, and was a Visiting Lecturer and Honorary Fellow at City University. She has taught at the Freud Museum, for the How To Academy and given extra-mural courses at Birkbeck. She co-edited Blackwell's Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations with A. J. Ayer, has several entries in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and has written introductions to Mill's On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, as well as several introductions for Plato's dialogues. She is the philosophy obituarist for the Guardian and she also reviews for the Telegraph, the Literary Review, the Financial Times and the Times Higher Education Supplement.