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Enlightenment

The Thing Itself

Republic of Letters

by Elisabeth Badinter, Jean Birnbaum,Translated by John Cullen,

From an interview in the November 28, 2018, edition of Le Monde with Élisabeth Badinter, conducted by Jean Birnbaum. Badinter is a French public intellectual and historian whose three-part history…

The Enlightenment is dead! Long live the Enlightenment!

by Terry Eagleton,

Common ground

by Thomas De Zengotita,

Finding our way back to the Enlightenment

Diderot

by Harold Joseph Laski,

Homage to a genius

Editor’s drawer

by Harper’s Staff,

Enlightenment

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