the enlightenment
Review: A Revolution of the Mind
Mark Hannam on Jonathan Israel’s more digestible enlightenment
Review: In Defence of the Enlightenment
Nina Power welcomes Tzvetan Todorov’s nuanced reclamation of the Enlightenment
Retrieving the idea of progress
Brian O’Connor explains why Adorno is not the enemy of the Enlightenment
Conquering fate
Frank Furedi on the birth of a world “made by man”
Seizing power from the divine
Nicholas Rescher argues that Kant’s radicalism is widely underestimated
Debate: The real enemies of reason
Ophelia Benson and Dan Hind go head-to-head on the threat to Enlightenment values
To cry “Sapere aude!” once again
Craig Nelson on Thomas Paine and the magic of engineering
The wonders of Scotland
John Haldane examines the remarkable intellectual impact of the Scottish enlightenment
Suicide of the West?
Richard Koch and Chris Smith rue the west’s loss of nerve
July podcast
In the latest edition of his Philosophy Monthly, tpm editor Julian Baggini is talking to two philosophical antagonists, AC Grayling and John Gray, discussing belief in progress and the power of reason. Plus he meets Labour MP and political theorist Tony Wright, who reveals how much Blair and Brown really care about ideas.
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