This unleashed an intense Europe-wide quarrel between the partisans of Hume and Rousseau. The authors of this book call the affair “An Enlightenment Quarrel” and “An Enlightenment Tragedy.” ...

The central question of human existence is whether we have free will, impacting moral codes, legal systems, and life's ...

“Enlightenment is totalitarian,” charged Max Horkheimer ... “The poor have no need of education,” wrote that sturdy egalitarian Jean-Jacques Rousseau. “As for the rabble,” wrote the encyclopedist ...

the concept of a Counter-Enlightenment; and the move from a private to a public sphere of cultural inquiry. The contributions of Newton, Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau - among others - ...

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 ...

Hume, who was himself an internationally eminent Enlightenment philosopher and historian, had facilitated Rousseau's escape from France to Britain in 1766. He also found him somewhere to stay and ...

David Lay Williams, DePaul University, Chicago David Lay Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and the author of several essays on the history of political thought, ...

Steven Howe offers a new angle on Kleist's dialogue with the Enlightenment by reconsidering his investment in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Where previous critics have trivialized this as ...

Childhood as we know it is a modern invention. Rousseau’s savage is, if not always noble, at least natural. While the ...

From the first coffee houses in the Ottoman Empire to Boston’s London Coffee House, cafes have always been an egalitarian ...

Childhood as we know it is a modern invention. Rousseau’s savage is, if not always noble, at least natural. While the Enlightenment created the romance of childhood, its irrational twin—the ...