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 ...

as the young Izabela meets everyone worth meeting in Enlightenment Europe. She does a Cossack dance for Frederick the Great and gets gardening advice from Joseph II. Benjamin Franklin teaches her to ...

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 ...

Some French philosophers, notably Jean le Rond d’Alembert and, surprisingly, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spurned Catherine’s blandishments ... a formidable range of reading and a mastery of political ...

He presents familiar figures in a new light, showing how the likes of Voltaire, Samuel Johnson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and later Byron ... dispassionate argumentation’, somewhat like a philosophy ...

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 ...

A cause of death has been confirmed for Taylor Rousseau Grigg, the TikTok star who died last week at age 25. Her family’s update comes five days after Taylor Rousseau Grigg’s husband ...