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Today, Yoko, writing in the preface to Power To The People, describes the One To One concerts as “our effort in Grassroots ...

The Enlightenment legacy can be seen all around us: individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity ...

Cryptic Vector, an Enlightenment Capital-backed company specializing in cybersecurity and electronic warfare, has acquired a ...

An intellectual movement which began in England in the seventeenth century, but then spread to have eventual influence over all sections of the world. The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an ...

Enlightenment triggered a process, because of which several revolutions including industrial revolution broke out, and a number of social movements got crystallised with far reaching impact.

CULTURE CLUB/GETTY IMAGES The Enlightenment began not only with books and pamphlets, but with an earthquake. In 1755, an earthquake flattened Lisbon, set it aflame, and then caused a massive ...

It may sound paradoxical, but what if the path to enlightenment begins with accepting our own insignificance? What if the ...

Himmelfarb's basic contention, one she supports with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship, is that the great 18th century French Enlightenment has been vastly overrated and that the British ...

In the last decade or so, defenders of the Enlightenment have shunned Herzog’s anxieties about liberal modernity in favour of Sandor’s belligerence. In the wake of 9/11 and the perceived threats of ...

I don’t. I like and respect Mr. Pinker, Mr. Brooks and others in their camp. But Enlightenment philosophy didn’t achieve a fraction of the good they claim, and it has done much harm.