Europe has been through many ages in its busy history: the age of discovery, the age of reason, the age of expansion, the age of destruction, and the age of unification. Now it is entering a new one: ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Roll over Voltaire and tell Kant and Hobbes the news. The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason”) with ...

If we are going to keep talking about gilded ballrooms and kings and such, maybe we should just go all in. We only have to look back to 300 years ago for inspiration. In the 17th and 18th centuries, ...

The “age of reason” that kicked off the Enlightenment was really “an age of unreason” so chaotic it prompted exceptional minds to seek out order amid the disorder, according to this panoramic account.