Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy ...
Continue Reading →Thus Winckelmann’s project, which offered an ambitious survey of cultural history, found an eager audience in international circles comprised of Enlightenment intellectuals and cosmopolitan elites ...
Continue Reading →Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717-68, a German scholar and art historian, was one of the most influential figures in the Neoclassical movement. In the second half ...
Continue Reading →Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of ...
Continue Reading →On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (19 April 1817) is a book by David Ricardo on economics. The book concludes that land rent ...
Continue Reading →The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is the work that the Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) is remembered for. ...
Continue Reading →This book shows how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a novel synthesis and argues that his political philosophy, often ...
Continue Reading →Theory of Colours is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet’s views on the nature of colours and how these ...
Continue Reading →A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund ...
Continue Reading →Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the ...
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