Of their two books, Du Châtelet’s The Institutions of Physics (1740) had the most impact. It went into four editions and influenced Enlightenment thinkers ranging from the editors of the Encyclopédie ...

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For 10 years we have heard the far right’s cry to Make America Great Again. But how did America become a superpower; what is ...

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Professor of Political Science Ryan Patrick Hanley, a historian of political philosophy who explores the work of eminent Enlightenment thinkers and their relevance for 21st-century society ... and the ...

The Enlightenment marks for many the birth of the Modern Age and evokes ideals of religious tolerance, political emancipation and human betterment. But how were such ideals expressed and what were ...

This article proposes an interpretation of the Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (1770) within the intellectual context of ...

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