Space will also be found for an examination of the contribution of enlightened thought to the visual arts and music in the 18th century. The course gives students the chance to consider whether or not ...

A good example of this might be their entrance into freemasonry: the first women’s masonic lodges were established precisely during the Enlightenment. Women’s entry into other spheres of male activity ...

Hannes Kerber is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Boston College, where he studies and teaches primarily 18th century political thought ... Die Aufklärung der Aufklärung: Lessing und ...

Reinert, Sophus A. The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

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The historical period from about the middle of the 17th century through most of the 18th century is commonly known as the Age of Enlightenment. Much of our current culture is shaped by the ideas ...

"Relating Sisters' Lives: Moravian Women's Writings from 18th Century America." Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society. 31 (2000): 11-27. Print. Immanuel Kant, "Physical Geography", trans.