What turned the neurotic Presbyterian teenager into the great founder of the European Enlightenment? In my shabby room, as I read Buddhist philosophy, I began to notice something that others had ...

The French Revolutionaries identified the Enlightenment as the work of a small ... the philosophes had cast welcoming rays of light and reason, stirring the dull roots of popular discontent. On the ...

They trace enlightenment, which split these spheres apart, back to its mythical roots. Enlightenment and myth, therefore, are not irreconcilable opposites, but dialectically mediated qualities of both ...