While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when science blossomed and revolutions in the United States and France occurred ... in his pamphlet "Common Sense" (published ...

A variety of social, economic and political pressures came to a head in 1789 when France's massive foreign ... In response, the pamphlet's author declares that his argument, couched in the terms of ...

American policy makers have turned away from France’s Enlightenment and toward Britain’s, she says, by “recapitulating” key ingredients of the British Enlightenment: the idea of compassion ...

1. The Enlightenment wasn’t restricted to France. Despite many of the Enlightenment’s most influential thinkers—René Descartes, M. de Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Baron de ...

was the most brilliant and versatile writer in 18 th century France—and, in all Europe. He was the single central figure identified with what is called The Age of Enlightenment, a period from ...

There is no doubt that the present pamphlet is, at all events, an Imperial "feeler." I. In France, at all limes, distant expeditions have at their outset awakened bitter criticism on the part of ...

This exhibition, curated by students in conjunction with the community-based course, French 310: Censorship and Enlightenment, tells the stories behind the controversial French Enlightenment books in ...