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 ...

There’s something about the Enlightenment. Today, few educated men and women spend much time debating whether Western civilization took a disastrously wrong turn in the High Middle Ages. They do not ...

At an exhibition dedicated to him at the Jewish Museum Berlin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the philosopher's legacy as "universal." The Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ...

The epilogue focuses on the final writings of Madame Roland, who was guillotined in 1793. Unlike the other writers in “The ...

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

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 ...

Alan Saunders: 'Die Wahrheit. Die Wahrheit'. Pamina in The Magic Flute saying, essentially, that if you tell the truth that's all that matters, whatever will come of telling the truth. And that seems ...

This book is about the break-up of the short friendship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the response to it by the “republic of letters” in Europe at the time, and what it intimates for ...