this book is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the European agenda. ‘As a biography, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger ...

helping them to understand why Montesquieu was such an important figure in the early enlightenment and why The Spirit of the Laws was such an influence on those who framed the American Constitution.

In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman ... copying liberally from Montesquieu and Locke; “so Du Châtelet was in ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

the concept of a Counter-Enlightenment; and the move from a private to a public sphere of cultural inquiry. The contributions of Newton, Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau - among others - ...

And as late as the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that any ... In the 17th and 18th centuries, when Enlightenment thinkers pioneered the idea that life was about the ...

A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment.” The passage in my first lecture to which ...

In Europe, the concept of limited government gained force during the Enlightenment ... into three branches is attributed to Baron de Montesquieu, and the idea that the government should avoid ...

The Open Boundary of History and Fiction: A Critical Approach to the French Enlightenment Suzanne Gearhart Challenging the view that a critical sense of history is missing from the Enlightenment, ...

How many could describe the thinking of Locke, Rosseau, Montesquieu or any of other philosophers of the Enlightenment? Could they have possibly composed a single one of the Federalist Papers ...

Then I thought that maybe Steve was thinking of “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” which is a pretty no-brainer title for a porn ...