The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment ... which at the age of eighteen I ...

Without rejecting established architectural tradition, the Adam brothers were modernists, free from dogmatic adherence to a particular style.Architecture has tended to be left out of the ...

This approach is the result of his intellectual background, claims the historian. “He shared the idea commonly held during the Age of Enlightenment, that the enlightened, the scholars knew what was ...

In the waning hours of 2015, as we reflected on the images produced by a year dominated by Europe’s migrant crisis, the world hoped that policy changes might ease the burden on thousands of ...

During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans, this included freedom and equality, "the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Free blacks and ...

(Bridgeman Images) The advance of liberalism sparked ferocious opposition ... This is when the Endarkenment starts—an age without faith or reason. In the digital labyrinth, the Enlightenment played ...

This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role ...

Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant philosopher in the French Enlightenment, whose reputation has too long ...

The thing is though, CPU performance, when it comes to AI, is insignificant. Like seriously insignificant, to the point it’s ...

A selection of the most powerful pictures taken by news-agency photographers ... of protests and strikes against plans to push back the age of retirement from 62 to 64. Some 80,000 protesters ...

Photos were selective ... and common as breathing – it’s something that people do all the time in the age of smartphone ...