Stephanie Rivera recounts the story of her family in 'In Pursuit of Enlightenment (on a shoestring budget)” (FriesenPress, 149 pages, $14.99). The author, who resides in Fairfield, traces her family's ...

From a “massive enlightenment experience” late last year, former Poway resident Kevin Russell wrote a book called “Radical Enlightenment: My Guy on the Ninth Floor.” “I feel like there’s something ...

From a “massive enlightenment experience” late last year, Encinitas resident Kevin Russell wrote a book called “Radical Enlightenment: My Guy on the Ninth Floor.” “I feel like there’s something just ...

Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker said the world is doing just fine. It may not seem like it, but we are progressing. Everybody calm down and look at the bigger picture. Look at our modern ...

This paper is focused on an often neglected aspect of Proudhon's thought: his rich confrontation with the theoretical legacy of the Enlightenment authors (Rousseau, Diderot, A. Smith, Condorcet, etc.) ...

In Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, Middlebury College history professor Monod challenges contemporary assumptions that the Enlightenment successfully quashed belief in ...

This book is about the break-up of the short friendship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the response to it by the “republic of letters” in Europe at the time, and what it intimates for ...

In these troubled times, when we're trying to scarf up all the tranquility, spiritual growth and enlightenment that we can lay our hands on, what a surprise to learn that the answer may be no farther ...