What happens when the certainties of reason give way to the tumult of the unconscious? Freud’s descent from Enlightenment ...

Enlightenment thinking engendered liberal democracies, civil liberties, free markets, religious toleration, and free speech; it helped us move out of the abject poverty, pervasive violence, and ...

According to ancient Buddhist texts, there are four stages between initial awakening and full enlightenment. Here, we discuss the first.

The tradition that you represent, in your strictures against the Enlightenment, traces its origins not to Marx, but to the demoralized petty-bourgeois theorists of the Frankfurt School ...

The Palais Galliera celebrates the elegance of women's fashion in the Age of Enlightenment with the "Passion XVIIIe siècle" ...

Defending the Enlightenment has become an academic cottage industry with various camps hunkering down behind their own interpretations, and, in good academic form, attacking others.

If the Enlightenment did anything, it was only to accelerate a process that had been ongoing for centuries. 3. The modern age doesn't look so hot when you count abortion.

The Enlightenment provides a touchstone for our understanding of modern history and, not least, for our sense of the current moment. More than two centuries ago, a shift in outlook sought to throw ...

In this thought-provoking book, molecular biologist Lee Silver defends science, biotechnology and post-Enlightenment values, which have come under attack by two ostensibly divergent groups in ...

The Enlightenment desktop environment is not for everyone. Experienced Linux fans may delight in some new light bulbs switching on, but Linux newcomers may find themselves groping in the darkness. For ...