But he goes further than he needs to in arguing that the U.S. Constitution isn’t a product of Enlightenment thinking (“The Dark Side of the Enlightenment,” op-ed, April 7). It is quite true ...

The loose collection of ideas that comprise Dark Enlightenment thinking emerged in the late 2000s through blogs and online ...

the state of enlightenment. This idea is tremendously challenging. You might be thinking: “Nothing? I am nothing? How could that be?” And yet remember that this nothingness was the foundation ...

“At some of the darkest times in both American and British history, Paine put his shoulder to the wheel and never gave up on the possibility of making Enlightenment thinking useful in politics,” said ...

With its primitive scientism and manga-style history of ideas, the book is a parody of Enlightenment thinking at its crudest.” Similarly, in an excoriating review for the Australian public ...

The Enlightenment, Lears reminds us, was supposed to vanquish magical thinking. Whereas premodern societies across the globe held that the universe was alive and that humanity was governed by an i ...

The story of how a stonemasons’ guild became the world's largest secret society is less about conspiracy and more about Enlightenment thinking. The title page of the Freemason Constitution at ...

In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment ...