But the most fruitful may be to view them as the latest representatives of an old tradition of opposition to the 18th-century Enlightenment and its legacy to our world. The Enlightenment legacy ...

The specific form of ignorance championed today by the most skilled and cynical academic representatives of ... by the science and philosophy of the Enlightenment, who believed in progress ...

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The Enlightenment, along with its representative figures like David Hume (1711–1776), is interwoven with the legacies of colonisation, of forced dispossession, of slavery and slave trading ...