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 intellectual journey of the Muslims continued till the end of the Abbasids. Many notable thinkers were produced during these times, and scholars from different parts of the world used to visit ...

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

Chapters feature treatments of specific thinkers as individuals including Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes and Derrida, but also more general movements and schools of thought from humanism to liberalism, ...

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 undermine her as a woman.

OPINION Matt Garvin I, like many others have been doing some reflection following last week’s election result. I am more and ...

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

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