Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. This Is Enlightenment: An Invitation in the Form of an Argument 1
5. MEDIATION: A CONCEPT IN HISTORY
6. Enlightening Mediation 37
7. Where Were the Media before the Media? Mediating the World at the Time of Condillac and Linnaeus 64
8. Mediation and the Division of Labor 87
9. Transmitting Liberty: The Boston Committee of Correspondence’s Revolutionary Experiments in Enlightenment Mediation 102
10. Modes and Codes: Samuel F.B. Morse and the Question of Electronic Writing 120
11. ENLIGHTENMENT: EVIDENCE AND EVENTS
12. Mediating Information, 1450– 1800 139
13. Mediated Enlightenment: The System of the World 164
14. Romanticism, Enlightenment, and Mediation: The Case of the Inner Stranger 173
15. The Present of Enlightenment: Temporality and Mediation in Kant, Foucault, and Jean Paul 189
16. The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Mediatic Form and Publicity in India 209
17. PROLIFERATION: MEDIATION AND PRINT
18. Mediating Media Past and Present: Toward a Genealogy of “Print Culture” and “Oral Tradition” 229
19. Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760– 1830: The Invention of Oral Tradition, or, Close Reading before Coleridge 247
20. Mediating le philosophe: Diderot’s Strategic Self- Representations 265
21. Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment 284
22. The Piratical Enlightenment 301
23. EFFECTS: EMERGENT PRACTICES
24. Financing Enlightenment, Part One: Money Matters 323
25. Financing Enlightenment, Part Two: Extraordinary Expenditure 336
26. “The Horrifying Ties, from which the Public Order Originates”: The Police in Schiller and Mercier 357
27. The Preacher’s Footing 368
28. Mediation as Primal Word: The Arts, the Sciences, and the Origins of the Aesthetic 384
29. Notes 413
30. References 439
31. Contributors 475
32. Index 479