Introduction Periodizing the Enlightenment Understanding Enlightenment Thought Enlightenment Separation and Conflation Experimental Method Quantification Politics (Civil) Society The Public Sphere Capitalist and Enlightenment Universality Imperialism Macro-pastoralism Conjectural History Slavery 1 Tradition as Tacit Knowledge Tradition Ideology The Aesthetic 2 Civil and Religious Liberty: A Case Study in Secularization Accommodation Civil Society The Empirical Criterion The Sociology of Group Formation Accommodating God's Will: Thoughts, Speech, Actions Defining Spheres of Discourse The Three Negative Liberties Secularization 3 Virtual Reality Religion Corporation Polity and Economy Capitalist Universality False Consciousness and Uneven Development The Commodity Form The Trope of the Fetish Parody The Trope of the Invisible Hand Conceptual Abstraction Capitalist and Enlightenment Universality Superstructure and Dialectics Conjectural History Polity and Society The Public Sphere The Two Publics Print Experimental Science Experience and Experiment Instruments: Experimental versus Artful Extending Experiment I: Political Philosophy Extending Experiment II: Beyond Observables The Imagination 4 Gender and Sex, Status and Class From Patriarchalism to Modern Patriarchy From Domestic Economy to Domestic Ideology Separate Spheres? Sex and Sex Consciousness The Two-Sex Model? The Three-Gender System: Conflation I Gender as Culture: Conflation II The Dialectic of Sexuality and Class The Common Labor of Sexuality and Class Sodomy and Aristocracy Types of Masculinity 5 Biography, Fiction, Personal Identity Biography, Fiction, and the Common Biography, Fiction, and the Actual Biography, Fiction, and the Virtual The Self behind Self-Fashioning From Secret History to Novel The Rise of Personal Identity 6 Historical Method Distance and Proximity Historicizing Empiricism Historical Method: Matching Particulars and Generals Dialectical Opposition I: History as Focalizations of Perspective Dialectical Opposition II: History as Moments of Temporality Dialectical Opposition III: History as Levels of Structure Acknowledgments Notes Source Notes Index.