A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment.” The passage in my first lecture to which ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

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“I have a long track record with Mary Wollstonecraft,” says the writer. “I retraced the journey she made in 1795 from the ...