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 ...

Everyone knows that. But treating those limits as moral collapse is an evasion, allowing critics to keep the moral ...

Eating the Enlightenmentoffers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regi ...

Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant philosopher in the French Enlightenment, whose reputation has too long been ...

This interdisciplinary outlook became a hallmark of Enlightenment thought and laid the groundwork for modern intellectual traditions. The book pays tribute to the scholars, translators and thinkers ...

A philosophically questioning podcast exploring the principles of The Enlightenment through the lens of contemporary art and its cutting-edge creators. Edge of Reason—an original podcast series ...

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 ...

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But why Enlightenment? Because it is Enlightenment that leads us to liberation from all misery and suffering on Earth and frees us from the Karmic cycle of death and birth. Enlightenment is the ...