Books: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, The House on Via Gemito, ... Its narrator, Yuna, is a young woman coming of age in provincial Argentina. She is a gifted painter, ...

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 ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Emilie du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy,” by Andrew Janiak.

The Enlightenment, Richard Whatmore contends in this book, is just such an idea. Well yes, since it appears to describe a state of mind rather than, say, a single, big thought (like “free trade”).

Okakura Kakuzo (1863-1913) was very much a product of the Meiji Era that he so revolted against. No slogans about progress and enlightenment for him. He thought that Japan was already enlightened ...

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis, by Richard Whatmore, Allen Lane £30, 496 pages Linda Colley is a professor of history at Princeton Join our online book group on Facebook at FT ...

“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody,” Simone de Beauvoir asserted in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, a book I was compelled to read during my university days. She meant to live ...