Secularisation is an unworthy expression for the men and women of the Enlightenment ― like Voltaire and Mary Wollstonecraft ― who were electrified by a certain perception of God, however heterodox it ...
Since the twin massacres in Paris two weeks ago, a small book with the modest title "Treatise on Tolerance" has rocketed to the top of the best-seller list in France. More than 100,000 have been sold ...
In the frontispiece to Voltaire's book on Newton's philosophy, Voltaire's lover Émilie du Châtelet appears as Voltaire's muse, reflecting Newton's heavenly insights down to Voltaire. 1738. Wikicommons ...
A traumatic event, such as the 9/11 attacks or the assault on Charlie Hebdo in Paris two weeks ago, can produce huge shifts in public opinion. A surge in patriotism, perhaps higher church attendances ...
As of 1 st of August, Liverpool University Press is the publisher of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment on behalf of the Voltaire Foundation. One of the key developments in the ...
Paris — A 250-year-old book by the Enlightenment anti-establishment writer Voltaire is climbing best-seller lists in France weeks after attacks by French-born Islamic extremists that left 20 people ...
Among neoconservatives, especially since the Iraq war, French bashing has become quite a popular sport. The French, so the sentiment goes, are appeasers, elitists, cowards and (worst of all) ...
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments , by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Alfred A. Knopf, 272 pages, $25. The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American ...
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