During the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment thinkers realized that human reasoning provided a better understanding of our ...

Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose ...

How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the eclipse of poetry by reason. In the post-Enlightenment age of politics and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Roll over Voltaire and tell Kant and Hobbes the news. The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason”) with ...

A philosophically questioning podcast exploring the principles of The Enlightenment through the lens of contemporary art and its cutting-edge creators. Edge of Reason—an original podcast series ...