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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

The 2024 U.S. presidential election was framed as a crucial test for the nation’s political system, with ongoing concerns ...

it is also a remnant of one of the great 18th century cabinet of curiosities and the start of the age of enlightenment. Beyond cultural aspects the collection provides tangible evidence of the history ...