The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of

In 1947 Horkheimer and Adorno connected the Enlightenment with totalitarianism. Since when the Left has drifted into the language and imagery of the European Co

This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth ce

A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s sheds new light on the rise of autobiographical writing in the 19th century and sketches a panoramic view of Europe in the Ag