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1 giorno fa · Born in Amsterdam in 1632, Baruch Spinoza was the most original thinker of the European Enlightenment. Three and a half centuries later, his philosophy retains a sense of strangeness and novelty ...
2 giorni fa · Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780226768861; 368pp.; Price: £31.50. Over 40 years ago, Robert Darnton proposed to evaluate the Enlightenment from its authors’ perspectives. After all, he observed, they were ‘men of flesh and blood, who wanted to ...
2 giorni fa · The Myths of Modernity, (review no. 415) For a generation Peter Gay’s book on the Enlightenment (a text which perhaps tells us more about the 1960s than the 1760s) informed scholars that Enlightenment and Christianity were polarities and that the defeat of dogma and metaphysics were the harbingers of secular modernity.
2 giorni fa · In New Testament studies, scholars typically talk about three “quests” for the Historical Jesus. During the Enlightenment, a paradigm shift happened among scholars who began using a fancy new way of studying history called the “historical-critical method,” which would be used to search for the historical Jesus.
2 giorni fa · As a forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period.
3 giorni fa · The enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Marxism, which takes the rational kernel of the former to their historical and logical conclusion, are necessarily condemned. The rejection of modernity and the Enlightenment has been a fad in Western academia for decades. Heidegger alone is not to blame.
2 giorni fa · Medieval to Enlightenment. After the breakup of the western Roman Empire, the study of rhetoric continued to be central to the study of the verbal arts. However the study of the verbal arts went into decline for several centuries, followed eventually by a gradual rise in formal education, culminating in the rise of medieval universities.
