Son of an abusive father, Frederick II blossomed when he took the throne. He attracted the great thinkers of Europe to his court while establishing Prussia as a dominant military power.

The Marquise du Châtelet was one of the most accomplished thinkers of her era, but her writings were overshadowed by her ...

Especially thanks to the thought of important Enlightenment thinkers, a serious philanthropic sensitivity developed, which translated into doctrinal and political reflection, particularly in terms ...

Callanan, Keegan 2014. Liberal Constitutionalism and Political Particularism in Montesquieu’sThe Spirit of the Laws. Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 67, Issue. 3, p. 589. Lloyd, Henry Martyn 2018.

Ensure this: There should be a note of enlightenment and enrichment in ... Go on tracing the thought to its origin and try to look for the thinker. Every thought should lead you to its source.

The Poetic Enlightenment gathers together essays from an outstanding group of scholars on the importance of poetry for Enlightenment thinkers. These essays brilliantly demonstrate in a variety of ways ...

All great thinkers know that not everything that counts can be counted.

91-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz, best known for the influential Heimat trilogy, has started shooting his latest film Leibniz, a portrait of leading Enlightenment thinker Gottfried Wilhelm ...

Whatmore profiles eight thinkers who drove the 18th-century Enlightenment and who (in different ways) watched it go up in flames. In this telling, they weren’t smug, they were despairing.