The Ten Plagues are reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, merging Biblical themes, personal experience, and symbolic ...

The Enlightenment has several different causes. Sustained funding from the “Sun King,” Louis XIV, who invested in art and culture to impress other European nations, brought creatives and ...

With Pirate Enlightenment, his final book, the late anthropologist David Graeber has given us the best attempt to date to integrate these pirates into the wider world they occupied, drawing them ...

Whereas in the Polish Enlightenment, these two areas were treated as complementary means of achieving progress. Keeping a watchful eye on cultural and scientific progress was inscribed in the social ...

One of the greatest influences on the British colonists’ thoughts and passions was the Enlightenment. This intellectual movement, which found its origins in the development of science and art ...

He also wasn’t a conservative in any traditional sense, for there was little that he, and others in the Futurist art movement that ... the rise of the “Dark Enlightenment” movement and ...

So begins Pirate Enlightenment. Like a political novel it ... Graeber does not exaggerate what he knows but he does draw enough threads together to put forward a few theories.

Learn about the Enlightenment's wide cast of protagonists ... In the afternoon, you will explore the nearby Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. This stunning building has 22 exhibition rooms ...