Long ago, before Westerners associated "enlightenment" with meditation or yoga, there was the Enlightenment: the philosophical revolution of the 1600s and 1700s that made the modern West. Before the ...
At the beginning of July 1973, my wife and I arrived in London from Chicago to spend a year doing research in the British Library. Many things conspired to show us that we were not in Kansas anymore: ...
The French Enlightenment has long been understood as a break from past practices and traditions, and as a period in which reason, science, progress, and secularization were invented. Furthermore, ...
This website is a good guide to the notable figures and events in Scottish Industry during the period known as the Industrial Revolution.You can find out about the working conditions for people of all ...
I last reviewed Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment on this site in 2001 just after it came out in hardback. Why return to it now? The book itself would justify another review since it is a large ...
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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Austrian school reformer Amand Schindler belonged to the physiocratic writers on economics who in the late eighteenth century argued in ...
Explore the Republican war on history, where right-wing narratives clash with the empirical Enlightenment-based history. Liberalism is rooted in this notion of the Enlightenment, the idea that we can ...
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 ...
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