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Enlightenment
About: Enlightenment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6845 publications have been published within this topic receiving 116832 citations.
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: McMahon as mentioned in this paper showed that contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right."
Abstract: Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history-the Enlightenment-as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the "Right." McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.
168 citations
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this article, the Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity and Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Historie naturelle, and the midcentury origins of Enlightenment Vitalism.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity 1. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Historie naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" 4. The Metamorphoses of Change 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie Epilogue: From the Foot of Chimborazo to the Flatlands of Europe Alexander von Humboldt's Dilemma Reprise: What Is Enlightenment? What Isn't Enlightenment? Notes Bibliography Index
163 citations
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01 Jan 1978
TL;DR: In this paper, Jacob Bronowski, a mathematician and scientist, presents a succinct introduction to the state of modern thinking about the role of science in man's intellectual and moral life.
Abstract: "A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski's dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg."-Kirkus Reviews "A delightful look at the inquiring mind."-Library Journal In this eloquent volume Jacob Bronowski, mathematician and scientist, presents a succinct introduction to the state of modern thinking about the role of science in man's intellectual and moral life. Weaving together themes from ethnology, linguistics, philosophy, and physics, he confronts the questions of who we are, what we are, and how we relate to the universe around us.
160 citations
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17 Jan 2002
TL;DR: The German MILITARY SCHOOL of the ENLIGHTENMENT as discussed by the authors was one of the first military schools of lightenment, founded in Germany in the early 1800s.
Abstract: PART ONE: THE MILITARY SCHOOL OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT PART TWO: THE GERMAN MOVEMENT, CLAUSEWITZ, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE GERMAN MILITARY SCHOOL PART THREE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MILITARY THOUGHT 15. INTRODUCTION: THE 'JANUS FACE' OF FASCISM 21. INTRODUCTION
157 citations
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01 Jan 1997
Abstract: In this insightful,beautifully written work, one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spretnak argues that an "ecological postmodern" ethos is emerging in the 1990s the creative cosmos, and the complex sense of place" Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible, The Resurgence of the Real changes the way we think about living in the modern world
156 citations