Stanford French professor Dan Edelstein recently announced the launch of a digital archive of enlightenment texts to help scholars better research and understand the "dark side" of the enlightenment.

The site features a collection of about three dozen rare works in French written between 1716 and 1835, covering mythology, alchemy, religion, free-masonry, science, and other topics, with accompanying bio-bibliographical essays by specialists in the field. Rather than rejecting what we commonly think of as Enlightenment ideas and paradigms, these esoteric texts explore many of the same themes. The beta version of the website was launched in April, 2009 and should be fully functional, with 10 new texts by late 2009.

For more information visit: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/supere