Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

King makes clear that, as in our own time, mid-18th-century England was mired in religious tensions, poverty, war and disease, even as the era eventually became known as the Age of Enlightenment.

A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment ... conception of history that we ...

Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of ...

In the 18th century much of basic biology and chemistry was developed as part of the Age of Enlightenment ... of some of the major events in Earth history and developments in science and technology.

Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

Victims of their own success in the postwar era of well-recorded sound, the Brandenburg concertos first arrived in the ears ...

We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War of Independence. Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

President Benjamin Harrison called him 'the pioneer ofprogress and enlightenment ... a different moment in world history, which we could call sortof a democratic age. MR. WATTENBERG: I have ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

When it comes to video games, historical settings seem to be among the most popular, and this is no different for the ...