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- The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report)
- John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 1: The Enlightenment of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764.(Review) (book review)
- Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 1: The Enlightenment of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764. By J. G. A. Pocock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 323p. $49.95. Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 2: Narratives of Civil Government. By J. G. A. Pocock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 4l3p. ...
- Research articles 2000-06-01
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- Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity.(Book Review)
- Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. By Darrin M. McMahon. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 262. $35.00.) Over sixty years ago, Robert Palmer, in his groundbreaking study, Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France,...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815.(Review) (book reviews)
- Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815. By Ken Alder. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 476. $59.50.) This is an ambitious book that applies the history of technology and material culture to the knotty questions of the origins of the...
- Research articles 1999-06-22
- Weber, David J. Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment.(Book review)
- Weber, David J. Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment New Haven: Yale University Press 466 pp., $22.05, ISBN 0-3001-0501-0 Publication Date: September 2005 The author of Bdrbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, David J....
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Enlightenment Anti-Imperialism - )
- A REMARKABLE, though ;also a largely neglected, episode in the history of theorizing liberty and pluralism can be found in the anti-imperialist political writings of the Enlightenment era. In this essay, I explore the historically anomalous character of Enlightenment anti-imperialism. That is, I explain why in the centuries immediately preceding...
- Research articles 1999-12-22
- Reading the French Enlightenment. System and Subversion. (book review)
- Reading the French Enlightenment. System and Subversion. By Julies Chandler Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 243. [pounds]40.00. The present closely-argued study draws extensively on the work of modern critical theorists and is aimed as much at explaining present-day attitudes...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War.(Book Review)
- A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War. By Azar Gat. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 890. $39.95.) This imposing and substantial volume is a new edition of the author's trilogy on the unfolding of...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France
- RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...
- Research articles 2008-12-01
- Rinspeed and Bayer MaterialScience Develop New Concept Car; ''zaZen'' - Automotive Enlightenment on Four Wheels; Revolutionary Lighting Technique and Transparent Hardtop at the Geneva Motor Show
- ZUMIKON, Switzerland & LEVERKUSEN, Germany -- February 28, 2006, will mark the world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show of the Rinspeed concept car, "zaZen", created by the famous Swiss designer, Frank M. Rinderknecht. It represents his vision of the car of the future and will be showcased as a...
- Research articles 2006-02-15
- Meeting in the middle; History of ideas.(Economics from the Enlightenment to the present)(Review)
- ADAM SMITH and Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet were two of the greatest minds of the European Enlightenment. The idea of bringing them together in a paired study is a happy one, for which Emma Rothschild, a historian of economic thought at Cambridge University, is to be congratulated....
- Research articles 2001-08-18
- Midelfort, H. C. Erik: Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-century Germany.(Book Review)
- Midelfort, H. C. Erik Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-century Germany New Haven: Yale University Press 219 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-10669-6 Publication Date: July 2005 H. C. Erik Midelfort, a professor at the University of Virginia, has joined...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: "What is Anthropological Enlightenment" -- a lecture by Marshal Sahlins.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 March 1999-UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: "What is Anthropological Enlightenment" -- a lecture by Marshal Sahlins C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:290399 TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 12, in 203 Meliora Hall on the University of Rochester River Campus...
- Research articles 1999-03-31
- Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief. (Briefly Noted).(Review)
- MAIMONIDES' EMPIRE OF LIGHT: POPULAR ENLIGHTENMENT IN AN AGE OF BELIEF. By RALPH LERNER. University of Chicago Press. 221 pp. $35. Of all those who were personally students of Leo Strauss, none of them has remained closer to Jewish teaching than Ralph Lerner. One of...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy.(Review) (book review)
- Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy. BY LEON CHAI. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 164 pp. $39.95 cloth. "Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge.... we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Venic and the Slavs. The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
- Larry Wolff. Venice and the Slavs. The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 408 pp. Bibliography. Index. $49.50, cloth. This study provides a multi-faceted approach to what the Venetian Empire saw as its civilizing mission towards its Slavic neighbours and subjects in the...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Wahnbaeck, Till: Luxury and Public Happiness: Political Economy in the Italian Enlightenment.(Book Review)
- Wahnbaeck, Till Luxury and Public Happiness: Political Economy in the Italian Enlightenment New York: Oxford University Press 264 pp., $90.00, ISBN 0-19-926983-1 Publication Date: April 2004 Till Wahnbaeck, once a doctoral student at Oxford and now a brand manager for Procter & Gamble,...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Lorien Customer Focus provides Express route to enlightenment.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 July 2004-Lorien Customer Focus (including the Lorien 'Younique' brand): Lorien Customer Focus provides Express route to enlightenmentC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07262004 When Britain`s only scheduled coach network National Express - the coach division of leading international public transport provider,...
- Research articles 2004-07-26
- Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths
- Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths. By Gerald R. McDermott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv + 245 pp. $45.00 cloth. In this important book, Gerald McDermott starts with a perplexing set of questions he encountered in his research on Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758):...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Venice and the Slavs: the Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
- Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, by Larry Wolff. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 408 pp. $60.00 US cloth, $25.95 US paper. Although at one level absolutely enticing, this volume is also, at another level, somewhat disturbing. The topic itself--Venice's...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
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