Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant philosopher in the French Enlightenment, whose reputation has too long been ...

At an exhibition dedicated to him at the Jewish Museum Berlin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the philosopher's legacy as "universal." The Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ...

Alan Saunders: 'Die Wahrheit. Die Wahrheit'. Pamina in The Magic Flute saying, essentially, that if you tell the truth that's all that matters, whatever will come of telling the truth. And that seems ...

This book is about the break-up of the short friendship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the response to it by the “republic of letters” in Europe at the time, and what it intimates for ...

Sometimes one comes across niggling questions, simple yet multi-layered. An inquisitive youngster recently asked what, in my opinion, was the most influential event of history. I am usually irked when ...