Dan Chitoiu (Cuza): The Founding Ideas of the Modern Cultural Horizon and the Meanings of Reason. A review of The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie. Joseph D. Lewandowski (UCM): Enlightenment and Constraints. Amy Crawford on the use of Utopia in the Enlightenment Era. John Gray reviews In Defence of the Enlightenment by Tzvetan Todorov (and more and more and more; and Todorov and AC Grayling discuss the legacy of the great 18th-century republic of letters). The first chapter from A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel. An interview with Stephen Eric Bronner, author of Reclaiming the Enlightenment (and part 2). The Cult of Reason: Fjordman on the dark side of the Enlightenment. A review of The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition by Zeev Sternhell (and more). A review of The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence by David Walsh. A review of Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction by Evelyn Cobley. A review of Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age by John Burnham. A review of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist (and more and more and more and more). A review of Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self by Ulrich Steinvorth. Something fundamental is changing in the hive mind: What goes inside the collective mind of people inside other cultures. Marc Hauser on the possibility of impossible cultures. The big theories underwriting society are crashing all around us. Chris Hedges on the Zero Point of Systemic Collapse: We stand on the cusp of one of humanity’s most dangerous moments.
