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Enlightenments, modest and otherwise.(REVIEW)(The Roads to Modernity)(Book Review)
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS after the 2004 election, Garry Wills, who has been known to write sensible things on occasion, came apart at the seams. In a New York Times op-ed titled "The Day the Enlightenment Went Out," Wills bemoaned an America in which more people "believe in the Virgin Birth than in Darwin's theory of evolution." He then went on to characterize the United States today as a land beset by "fundamentalist zeal," "rage at secularity," "religious intolerance," and "fear and hatred of modernity"--qualities that Americans often ascribe to their unenlightened and premodern Islamist enemies. Whatever their source, Wills concluded, "Jihads are scary things. It is not too ...
- MATRIX OF MODERNITY.(British Enlightenment)
- Magazine article from: History Today Porter, Roy April 1, 2001 700+ words
...Roy Porter discusses how the British Enlightenment paved the way for the creation...epochs in human affairs. The Enlightenment comprised such a turning...and-now. Indeed, the Enlightenment brought the birth of science...
- Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Bennett, Andrew January 1, 1999 700+ words
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2 (1996). Ed. by KEVIN L. COPE. New York: AMS Press. 1996. xv + 366 pp. $62.50. The ambitious scope of this annual, reflected in the open arms of its title, determines the character of this volume. It is full of 'ideas' and
- Which enlightenment?(The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Windschuttle, Keith March 1, 2005 700+ words
...term than Scottish would be British Enlightenment. Moreover, unlike the French...Himmelfarb defines the British Enlightenment in terms that some might...very close they were to the British Enlightenment and how distant from French...
- The idea of compassion: The British vs. the French Enlightenment.
- Magazine article from: Public Interest Himmelfarb, Gertrude September 22, 2001 700+ words
...unique achievement of the British Enlightenment--the British, not the...of being the father of the British Enlightenment. Shaftesbury's collection...distinctive feature of the British Enlightenment, a philosophy in which compassion...
- Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Weisberger, William September 22, 1994 700+ words
...and civic culture, explores Enlightenment ideologies and their connections...secular societies arising in Enlightenment Europe. Chapters in the first...scientific doctrines of the early British Enlightenment. There are persuasive accounts...
- A Designer Enlightenment Tailored to Conservative...
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) August 30, 2004 700+ words
...essay with a vow to reclaim the Enlightenment not just from the postmodernists...John Jay. The Frenchified Enlightenment that Ms. Himmelfarb disdains...World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment (2000). Arthur Herman went...
- Austen's Emma and the gendering of Enlightenment satire.(National Humanities...
- Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal Mason, Nicholas January 1, 2003 700+ words
...affinities she shares with Enlightenment writers. In particular, Austen...last great satirists of the British Enlightenment as something of a given. But...fact that from the beginning Enlightenment satire was a predominantly...
- Feedback loop: a review essay on the public sphere, pop culture, and the...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Stewart, Larry December 22, 2007 700+ words
...Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass., and London...expansion of scientific knowledge was one legacy of the British Enlightenment. Even so, Davy, like the chemist Joseph Priestley...
