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‘The Enlightenment’ Review: Waves of New Thinking

The Renaissance is conventionally dated from the 14th to the 17th centuries, but the French term “Renaissance” was coined in the 19th. The major events of the “Scientific Revolution” are usually ...
Washington Examiner

A brief era of rationality is ending

What is the central idea of the Enlightenment? Human dignity? Secularism? Pluralism? Freedom? All these things matter. But something came before them and made them feasible, something so woven into ...
The Economist

An inspiring history of the Enlightenment

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 ...
The New York Times

A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values

Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Princeton. Will artificial intelligence bring about an intellectual revolution as profound as the Enlightenment? Enthusiasts like to make this claim, and even use ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 18th-Century Shoes Underscore the Contradictions of the Age of Enlightenment

“The Great Divide” explores how ideas that came to the fore during the Enlightenment at once blurred social hierarchies and reinforced them, particularly along ...
CounterPunch

An Entangled History: Christianity Faces Off With The Enlightenment

The churches relationship to the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment is an entangled history. Margaret Jacobs (“The Enlightenment critique of Christianity,” in The Cambridge History of ...