Courtesy of Britain’s Enlightenment and its “moral philosophers,” the religious virtue of compassion has become a secular one, and a private duty has become a public responsibility, writes Gertrude ...

Gaspard Koenig, a French philosopher, novelist, and modern-day gentleman farmer reflects on soil, freedom and the rhythms of ...

Part one: Background -- The enlightened concept of progress -- The English dawn: lactitudinarianism, deism, pantheism, and natural Belgium -- The Enlightenment in Scotland: the metamorphosis of ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: savants, artisans, artistes. Part 1 The natural history of the arts : Lost knowledge and the history of the arts -- Réaumur and the science of the arts. Part 2 The ...

Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real age of mass media. How enlightened, truly, was the Enlightenment, a period in Europe ...

Since its inception in 1940, the Journal of the History of Ideas (JHI) has served as a medium for the publication of research in intellectual history that is of common interest to scholars and ...