But even as they venerate the Enlightenment, these writers actually underestimate its influence on the modern ... This project, undertaken by the leading thinkers of the time, involved “the ...

The loose collection of ideas that comprise Dark Enlightenment thinking emerged in the late 2000s through blogs and online ...

In other words, Neiman, and anyone else who spies the influence of wokeness in their daily lives ... His review of Neiman’s work chiefly consists of a lengthy counter-list of Enlightenment thinkers ...

the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment thinking. Specifically, he describes how the pirate “kingdoms” of 18th-century ...

The principles that united Enlightenment thinkers from different countries ... impact on the design of the U.S. government. This influence is present in the 1776 Declaration of Independence ...

The rise of prominent Enlightenment thinkers—including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant and David Hume, among others—greatly influenced European ideas about economics ...

“His life and writings remind us that reasoned thinking and compelling arguments can be ... How do critiques of the Enlightenment project influence the rise of populism, the decline of effective ...

Largely ignored by academic philosophers, the “Dark Enlightenment” movement ... spoke admiringly of the blogger’s influence on his thinking when interviewed on a podcast in July 2024.

Though Enlightenment thinkers trumpeted liberty for all rational persons, few argued that women should be granted the same political and economic rights as men. Instead, women were expected to ...