Essay must be based on academic sources and should try to discuss the following questions: 1) What did Kant and other enlightened thinkers claim the Enlightenment could achieve? 2) How did the Enlightenment attempt to fulfil this promise? 3) Has it been successful in doing so? 4) To what extent has its success or otherwise depended on people’s ethnicity and their social, economic and political position? Some Readings to use for refrences Bostic, H. (2010) Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century. Newark: University of Delaware Press, ProQuest Ebook Central. Edelstein, D. (2010) The Enlightenment: A Genealogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ProQuest Ebook Central. Israel, J.I. (2006) Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ProQuest Ebook Central. Love, R. S. (2008) The Enlightenment. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. Melton, J. Van Horn (2001) The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ProQuest Ebook Central. O’Hara, K. (2010) The Enlightenment: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford: Oneworld. Outram, D. (1995) The Enlightenment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Porter, R. (2001) The Enlightenment. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Stalnaker, J. (2011) The Unfinished Enlightenment: Desсrіption in the Age of the Encyclopedia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, ProQuest Ebook Central.
