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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Locke had been looking for a career and in 1667, moved into Ashley's home at Exeter House in London, to serve as his personal physician. In London, Locke resumed his medical studies under the tutelage ...

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 ...

Stan Persky, left, and writing partner Brian Fawcett, co-founders of the Dooneyscafe website, at a book launch in 2010. Photo via Flickr. What can I tell you about my cherished friend Stan Persky ...

SO spotlights designs from architect Vidal Dowding, one of six presenters at the Jamaica Observer’s Design Week 2024 launch at S Hotel, Kingston on Su ...

Just five days after her sudden death on October 5, her family have revealed the cause of her death and said they would miss the woman who brought “such a light” to their lives. Her husband ...

The Renaissance revived classical individualism, leading to the Enlightenment, where thinkers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau articulated notions of personal liberty and social contract.