| Intellectual origins of Enlightenment | | p. 3-64 |
| The Huguenot debate on toleration | | p. 65-77 |
| The age of Louis XIV and early Enlightenment in France | | p. 134-155 |
| The high Enlightenment | | p. 159-193 |
| The science of man, education and the reproduction of the Enlightenment, science and the eighteenth-century public : scientific revolutions and the changing format of scientific investigation | | p. 194-206 et 217-247 |
| Historical writing in the Enlightenment world | | p. 207-216 |
| Polite culture and the arts | | p. 249-306 |
| Encyclopaedism and Enlightenment, print culture, the appearance of Enlightenment : refashioning the elites, popular culture | | p. 337-419 |
| Reforming the world : introduction | | p. 421-425 |
| The party of the philosophes | | p. 426-441 |
| Enlightenment and government | | p. 442-456 |
| Enlightenment, republicanism and radicalism | | p. 457-472 |
| The new economics of the Enlightenment | | p. 473-486 |
| Making a better world : Enlightenment and philanthropy | | p. 486-501 |
| Law and Enlightenment | | p. 502-515 |
| Fantasies of paradise, millenarian visions and utopian speculations, cross-cultural encounters in the Enlightenment | | p. 517-569 |
| Rousseau : enlightened critic of the Enlightenment ? | | p. 596-609 |