Intellectual Life
The prevailing understanding of the Enlightenment is one in which there was only scientific and rational thinking. Dan Edelstein, former fellow (2008-09) and assistant professor of French and Italian at Stanford, has been digging a little deeper, into the darker side of the Enlightenment. Read on to learn more about how more dubious scholarly pursuits, such as alchemy, mythology, astrology and secret societies, also made made key contributions to Enlightenment thought. Read more
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