Enlightening the Enlightenment
April 5, 2023
Dare to Know was a New York Times Best Art Book of 2022 Elizabeth M. Rudy — How can the organization of a book about the Enlightenment convey the period’s… READ MORE
April 5, 2023
Dare to Know was a New York Times Best Art Book of 2022 Elizabeth M. Rudy — How can the organization of a book about the Enlightenment convey the period’s… READ MORE
March 4, 2021
Peter E. Gordon— In 1770, the empress Maria Theresa summoned to the Viennese court an imperial counselor named Wolfgang von Kempelen, a man from the Hungarian city of Pressburg who… READ MORE
January 29, 2021
Jonathan Rée— Without books, according to Hobbes, we could not be ‘excellently wise’, but on the other hand we would not be ‘excellently foolish’ either. “They which trust to books,… READ MORE
March 6, 2020
Laszlo F. Foldenyi— In Venice, in an of the out-of-the-way corner of the Piazzetta located at the corner of the basilica of Saint Mark, there is a statuary group depicting… READ MORE
February 19, 2020
Giambattista Vico— Wisdom is the faculty that commands all the disciplines; by these, all the sciences and arts that complete our humanity are apprehended. Plato defines wisdom as that which is… READ MORE
March 3, 2014
Follow @WRLBooks “Beginning of modern thought.” Witold Gombrowicz starts his guide through modern philosophy with characteristic concision. The “First Lesson” is a description of Kant’s contributions to philosophy, with some… READ MORE