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Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment?
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2006Enlightenment! Which Enlightenment? Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, 4 vols., editor in chief Alan Charles Kors; eds. Roger L. Emerson, Lynn Hunt, Anthony J. La Vopa, Jacques Le Brun, Jeremy D. Popkin, C. Bradley Thomson, Ruth Whelan, and Gordon S. Wood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).On the surface it might well seem that during the last ...
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Counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment
2010As indicated, the Enlightenment proceeds as the “agent provocateur” or unwitting factor of the perpetuation or revival of the pre-Enlightenment, notably the Dark Middle Ages, from what Weber may call the terminal condition of caput mortuum (“presumed dead”) or total darkness.
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2009
Abstract As is so often the case, the simpler the question, the more difficult it can be satisfactorily to answer it. This article explains why. It investigates: the meaning and usefulness of the term ‘Enlightenment’; the origins and evolution of British Enlightened thought, which emerged a number of decades before that of France or ...
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Abstract As is so often the case, the simpler the question, the more difficult it can be satisfactorily to answer it. This article explains why. It investigates: the meaning and usefulness of the term ‘Enlightenment’; the origins and evolution of British Enlightened thought, which emerged a number of decades before that of France or ...
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Enlightenment on Enlightenment
New German Critique, 1994Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Richard Wolin
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The period begins with the work of Richard Wiseman who was associated with royalists in the English Civil War. A little later Dionis was the first to note a relationship between a disturbance of consciousness and extravasation of blood. This notion was continued and expanded by Le Dran, Pott, and Benjamin Bell, with Pott providing a pathophysiological ...
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Nuclear enlightenment and counter-enlightenment
International Affairs, 2007Given the apocalyptic nature of nuclear weapons, how can states establish an international order that ensures survival while allowing the weapons to be used in controlled ways to discourage great wars, and while allowing nuclear technology to dif use for civil purposes?
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Through the pages of Caras y Caretas (Uruguay-Argentina), it is possible to chart the evolution of the illustrated magazine from a satirical publication on politics and current affairs to the “popular illustrated magazine,” a commercially minded publishing enterprise that produced—and distributed via the railway system—periodicals of several pages ...
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Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and Anti-Enlightenment
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