AUSTIN, Texas -- Sign languages throughout North and South America and Europe have centuries-long roots in five European locations, a finding that gives new insight into the influence of the European ...

Historian Blom (The Vertigo Years) visits the salons of 18th-century Europe and compares this "radical" Enlightenment with the more bourgeoisie, "soft Enlightenment" of Votaire, Kant, and other ...

A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment. By Philipp Blom. Basic Books; 384 pages; $29.95. To be published in Britain in March by Weidenfeld & Nicolson as “Wicked ...

Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al. The first Western Enlightenment of the Greek fifth-century B.C. sought to explain natural phenomena through reason rather than superstition alone.

It would probably come as a surprise to most readers in Europe and America that the Enlightenment spread all the way to Greece in the eighteenth century and spawned revolutionary movements in support ...

This course is available on the BA in History, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in History and Politics, BSc in International Relations and History, BSc in Social Anthropology, Erasmus Reciprocal ...