The Enlightenment marks for many the birth of the Modern Age and evokes ideals of religious tolerance, political emancipation and human betterment. But how were such ideals expressed and what were ...

The author is clearly as sure-footed an expert on the French Enlightenment as he is a shaky novice when it comes to Russia’s 18th-century Europeanisation. The book suffers from occasional linguistic ...

When did Maria Theresa come to power? Ascending the Habsburg throne in 1740, at 23 years old, Maria Theresa assumed rule at a perilous moment for her empire. The state’s coffers were empty and its ...

In mainstream thought, the Enlightenment is commonly perceived as a heroic campaign for secularisation and emancipation led by great thinkers known as philosophes. Voltaire and Hume are often seen as ...

thinkers, and intellectual currents on the European continent (as opposed to Anglo-American political conservatism) from the 1789 French Revolution to the present day. In particular, the volume ...

By Sonal Srivastava Should politicians use religion to garner votes from their constituencies in secular democracies? It is a million-dollar question with no real answer. While it is challenging to ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

is taken from a French revolutionary song and reportedly ... The eighteenth-century notion of sentiment propagated by enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith did place women in what was ...

Class of top 30 emerging management thinkers, using their proprietory selection process. Each year, the Thinkers50 Radar List identifies 30 emerging management thinkers poised to reimagine the ...

Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et ...