Europe was passing through the Dark Age from which it started emerging only through Renaissance and Enlightenment. Syed Muhammed Zafar in his book Democracy and Islam in History has mentioned that ...

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 ...

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.

Some French philosophers, notably Jean le Rond d’Alembert and, surprisingly, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spurned Catherine’s blandishments ... The author is clearly as sure-footed an expert on the French ...

Beginning with foundational texts by thinkers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, students will trace how liberalism ... ancient and medieval thought through the Renaissance and the ...

Influenced by the rationalist ideas and moral seriousness of such Enlightenment thinkers as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and inspired by important archaeological discoveries that radically ...

is the battle cry of the Enlightenment. It was articulated by Immanuel Kant ... Another important influence was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose Emile fascinated Kant so much that he even gave up his ...

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 ...

An Oct. 24 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy questioning White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about disaster relief related ...