ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the rise of the Enlightenment and explains how its cultural effervescence was rooted in the maturation of public communication through print and the rise of new social practices of communication in places such as salons, coffee houses, and Freemasonic lodges. It also discusses Isaac Newton (1643–1727) and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) but concentrates on Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu, as a model.
