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

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

A trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History reminds us why education and information for the people are essential.

Enlightenment is sometimes referred to simply as "e". If you stare at the logo for long enough, you can see the "e" in it. (If you hold it close to your face and stare at it, you ...

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

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.

Of course, the philosophes’ self-fashioning as liberators of mankind invited detractors.Just over 20 years after Kant’s triumphalist declaration, Hegel would blame the Enlightenment for the guillotine ...

Himmelfarb's basic contention, one she supports with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship, is that the great 18th century French Enlightenment has been vastly overrated and that the British ...

Who am I? — guiding us beyond body, mind, and ego toward the realisation of our true self as the Soul. It reveals how ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East today. A region that once birthed mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and ...