Search Results for: Religion And The Origins Of The German Enlightenment

Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the juris

In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular

Provides a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this book, famili