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 ...

Sarah Perry's novel, Enlightenment, recently received a Booker Prize nomination. It follows the relationship between two friends, with a 30 year age difference, as they confront the role of the ...

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 First Temple Period” is more than just a history book; it is a testament to the enduring spirit of the Jewish people and ...

In the age of Enlightenment, Judaism was a parochial anachronism, a coercive atavism, ... Three recent books elaborate and further this account of the Jewish Enlightenment.

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 ...

"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 ...