Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Written by prominent scholars of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, this collection celebrates the 300th anniversary of Rousseau's birth ...

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.

I’m going to call it the “Endarkenment” because it rises, like an accusing specter, out of the corpse of the fallen Enlightenment ... of education,” wrote that sturdy egalitarian Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...

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

Two short response papers (500 words each). Each week, the professor will circulate a list of questions on the next week’s reading. The response papers should address one of these questions, or, if ...

TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s cause of death has been released, just one week after she died at age 25. Taylor — who boasted over 1.4 million followers on the social media platform ...

Taylor Rousseau Grigg's cause of death has been determined. The TikToker died on Oct. 4 at age 25 after suffering complications from asthma and Addison’s disease, a spokesperson for her family ...

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.