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Hace 2 días · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Hace 1 día · It’s a zesty beginning, meant to draw us into the heart of Walker’s project: a group biography, as he calls it, of the writers Dwight Macdonald, Kenneth Tynan, and Richard Wright, whose ...
Hace 4 días · Professor John Burt, review of Worlds of American Intellectual History, (review no. 2263) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2263. Date accessed: 18 May, 2024. About 40 years ago, the field of US intellectual history entered a period of self-doubt about the rigor of its methods, about the narrowness of its archive and its interests, even about ...
Hace 1 día · Cathy Newman's full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America's foremost intellectuals pres...
Hace 4 días · In this essay, Ian Merkel relates how historians research intellectual exchange, what kinds of sources they use, and how this exciting area of scholarship can help us better understand world history.
Hace 5 días · Ludwig von Mises (born September 29, 1881, Lemberg, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]—died October 10, 1973, New York City, New York, U.S.) was an Austrian-American libertarian economist known for his contribution to liberalism in economic theory and his belief in the power of the consumer.
Hace 4 días · As we have seen, African American intellectuals have sought to reconstruct the black image for two reasons: first, to refute racist stereotypes and second, to instruct blacks themselves on what they—the intellectual leaders—took to be the proper way for blacks to advance, individually and collectively, when they found themselves ...
