The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw off ...
Although the Enlightenment revolutionized human thought and transformed the world, it failed to produce a coherent theory of knowledge. The central reason is that the modernist systems of science and ...
The neo-reactionary thinking that inhabits the White House defines itself as the Dark Enlightenment, upon which the notion of the “Western hemisphere”, one that US President Donald Trump seeks to ...
A lot of people are selling Enlightenment these days. After the Brexit vote and the election of President Trump, David Brooks published a paean to the “Enlightenment project,” declaring it under ...
Frank Klaassen has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. University of Saskatchewan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes talked about the enlightenment ideas that contributed to the concept that power should be derived from the consent of the ...
The Enlightenment. By Ritchie Robertson.Allen Lane; 1,008 pages; £40. To be published in America by Harper in February; $45. IN SEPTEMBER THE University of Edinburgh expunged the name of David Hume ...
The Englightenment is celebrated in the West as an age of progress. It was also an age that cemented some of the worst human traits ...
Imagine that Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran who led the Islamic Revolution, finds his palace swarmed by hundreds of thousands of ghosts who were executed by revolutionaries. An ...