In his remarkable and excellent new book, “Conservatism: A Rediscovery,” Yoram Hazony makes a convincing case that Enlightenment rationalism is the god that failed and that the English-speaking world ...

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2004.00276.x When Nietzsche launched the postmodern attack on the ...

In a new book about the Enlightenment, author Joseph Heath explains how catching a fly ball and farming in Africa illustrate the limits of rational thought You can save this article by registering for ...

In Radical Enlightenment, the great revisionist study which Enlightenment Contested continues, Jonathan Israel made an irrefutable case for the Amsterdam philosopher Baruch Spinoza as the instigator ...

Race is a contentious issue. Is it biological? Is it cultural? Is it merely a historical vestige in a post-racial society? The recent adoption by the state of Arizona of a palpably racist ...

Most battles of enlightenment were waged against extremism, radicalism, isolation and in defence of rationalism and basic human rights. The major battle was waged against the desire of some people to ...

The constant temptation in immediate commentary on world events is to overreact and overexplain. At the moment, we are being told that our world has been turned upside down, that democracy doesn’t ...

The New Atheism's vigorous and uncompromising assertion of the rationality of its own beliefs and the irrationality of everyone else's has caused many within the wider atheist community to cringe with ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre, by ...