In The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period—from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution—Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark.
The #Interdisciplinary Centre for European #Enlightenment Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (#UniHalle) is offering two Dr. phil. Fritz-Wiedemann-Fellowships.
Our world calls out for a new #enlightenment. A guide to an intelligent and democratic #reconstruction of our social, moral, and vital values in place of the current state of cultural civil war perpetuated by mechanisms designed to generate private profit and individual attention.