The general enlightenment period in the First Reich ... There were, of course, Jewish representatives (all male) at the congress, but they were only allowed to observe, not speak.

Consider the ostracized, marginalized pirates who settled in 18th century Madagascar, married local women, and birthed one of the lost wellsprings of the Enlightenment. With Pirate Enlightenment ...

This was best demonstrated in her daring but highly successful history of the Enlightenment in Britain, France, and the United States. By the time she wrote, a number of historians had accepted that ...

Two western scholars, orientalists and spiritually inclined individuals of the past century, Aldous Huxley and Carl Gustav Jung began to have doubts regarding the claims of enlightenment towards ...

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti liked automobiles, particularly his four-cylinder Fiat sports car. For him, the car represented innovation and vitality, even violence. Most of all, it signified the future.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What is enlightenment, and where, when and how did it happen? One traditional answer is that the ...

Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real age of mass media. How enlightened, truly, was the Enlightenment, a period in ...