The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, in concert in St. Paul, Minn. We're used to thinking of the 20th century as the high point of technological and cultural change. The case is easy to make: A ...

One of the most unusual and vital products of the 18th Century Enlightenment in Europe was the first novel ever produced by a country to which enlightenment came with great difficulty amid the ...

For Immanuel Kant, the central theme of the Enlightenment—that great 18th century movement that emphasized the power of reason—was Sapere aude. This is usually translated as "Dare to know" or, more ...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Jan. 21, 2014, to indicate that the Enlightenment occurred from the last decade of the 17th century through the first decade of 19th century. As scientists, we ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Caroline Winterer (The Culture of Classicism) discussed how America's founders were influenced by Greek and Roman philosophies as well those ...

Most people would think that the idea of a Catholic Enlightenment was a contradiction in terms. Was not the Enlightenment essentially anti-religious and specifically anti-Catholic? Did not the ...

James Boswell, the 18th-century Scot best known for his "Life of Samuel Johnson," the greatest literary biography in the English language, was nothing if not cheeky. In his early 20s, by dint of a ...

The annual Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis will explore how art made during the Enlightenment doesn’t always fit neatly into commonly held ideas about the period. Titled “Art and the ...

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) ...

Five telescopes made of bone and dating to the 18th century have been discovered in Amsterdam, with two of the scopes found in the equivalent of toilets. At the time, called the Enlightenment, the ...