We have moved through the Enlightenment, the romantic era, the modern era, and are now in the midst of a postmodernism movement that challenges the individualism at the heart of Western culture.

Max Weber's writings convey a tension between a commitment to Enlightenment rationalism and a romanticism that was largely shaped under the influence of the "Sturm und Drang." The tension is ...

In a span of 50 years in the late 18th century, Edinburgh, a city of merely 40,000 inhabitants, contained some of the Enlightenment's most important thinkers, such as philosopher David Hume ...

Esther Schor received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1985. Before coming to Princeton in 1986, she taught at Tufts University and Barnard College, Columbia University. She specializes in British Romanticism, ...