The Age of Enlightenment has formerly been defined as hostile to the values of ancestry and genea...

This book fills a gap as it poses, for the first time, the question of the philosophical meaning ...

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Co...

What was the Scottish Enlightenment? Long since ignored or sidelined, it is now a controversial t...

Hanna Roman examines Buffon's Histoire naturelle, arguing that the written language of natural hi...

Le droit pénal moderne est né d'un livre et de ses interprétations, des idées de Cesare Beccaria ...

In Nature and the new science in England, 1665-1726, Denys Van Renen examines the tension between...

Ireland's situation on the periphery of western Europe is sometimes seen as isolating it from lie...

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on V...

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on V...

Scholarly understanding of the notion of public opinion in France has suffered, and suffers still...