A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment.” The passage in my first lecture to which ...

HY315 is available to General Course students starting in the Michaelmas Term ONLY in 2020/21. The European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is conventionally taken to be the period in which ...

Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment brings together leading scholars in cultural history, the history of ideas and global politics in order to reassess the complexity of cosmopolitanism during the ...

How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the career of German polymath Johann Daniel Major ...

“Even as she rose to the highest levels of intellectual fame in eighteenth-century Europe, she was first betrayed by the Enlightenment itself.” Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant ...

Know more about the closing of Enlightenment Capital's oversubscribed fifth fund to advance its strategy of investing in ...

William Zachs takes Paul Kennedy through his library of amazing books that were published in Scotland during the heyday of the Scottish Enlightenment. At the time, Adam Smith, David Hume ...

Fund V Enables Enlightenment Capital to Continue Executing Its Proven Strategy of Partnering with Exceptional Management Teams and Businesses Supporting Critical Government and Defense Missions CHEVY ...