A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its ...
In 1784 a Berlin newspaper invited responses to the now-familiar question “What is Enlightenment?” Immanuel Kant’s reply retained the question as its title: a choice which has contributed to the sense ...
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, “Muscles of the Back,” Plate 14 (detail) from “Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle” (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size) by ...
Enlightenment“bashing, it would seem, is “in.” If anything could unite the discordant voices inside the cacophony of postmodern “discourse,” it must surely be the almost unanimously acknowledged ...