The psychologist C.G. Jung — who was deeply interested in alchemy and astrology — might label the simultaneous appearance of these two similar-sounding books as an instance of what he called ...

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 ...

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”).

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

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 ...

The book’s opening section examines philosophical critiques of the Enlightenment project from thinkers who represent both the ideological right and the left. What do those critiques get wrong? Ian ...

The book is not an easy read; it takes a lot for granted, especially the terms of the debate that characterised the women’s question in colonial India. It takes up major segments of Rukhmabai’s life — ...

"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” looks at prints and drawings from the 18th century, a time of revolutions -- both political and idological. The exhibition encourages ...