Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In

A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures.

Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising f

Traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, the fine arts, philosophy and public opinion. Th

For most of the eighteenth century the best minds in Europe took up the task of providing a foundation for human life and human society in which individual fulf