Yale University: John Merriman's "The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere"

Watch this lecture. Focus on the different meanings of the Enlightenment among the intellectual elites and in popular culture. What did the Enlightenment thinkers focus on? What did they critique? How was the influence of the intellectuals different from that of the "street"?

Click http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-202/lecture-5 link to open resource.