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

And, may I ask, in which of the writings of the great Marxists will one find either condemnation of Enlightenment thinkers or praise for their opponents? In a manner that crudely suggests that the ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

This portrait was painted when Rousseau was in exile in London as a guest of the Scottish thinker David Hume.This ... himself an internationally eminent Enlightenment philosopher and historian ...

I’m going to call it the “Endarkenment” because it rises, like an accusing specter, out of the corpse of the fallen Enlightenment ... unconditionally to the Endarkenment. The German thinker Theodor ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t ...

It was a kind of “Dark Enlightenment,” a humanism shot through with pessimism about human nature. So, for instance, Filmer references Latin texts even more often than does Rousseau.

Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s cause of death has been revealed. The TikTok influencer died on Oct. 4 of complications from asthma and Addison’s disease, a rep for her family told Today.com on Thursday.

Her husband described her death as 'sudden and unexpected' in an Instagram tribute shortly after the influencer died on Oct. 4 TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg's cause of death has been revealed.

Williams does more than just chart this intellectual history: He makes a persuasive case that these thinkers were right ...