for surely Voltaire's life—law school dropout, ex-con, hero of The Age of Enlightenment, and pro bono counsel—was Shakespearean. David Lenefsky practices law in Manhattan. He was formerly ...

It is significant for its thrilling insight into the spiritual perception of one of the most prominent thinkers of the Enlightenment, one that turns our expectations of Voltaire’s critique of ...

The long philosophical engagement with the idea of Enlightenment, from Voltaire in the eighteenth century down to our own time, is, for Ferrone, one of the great intellectual legacies of the ...

Voltaire was enabled to become an old and famous aristocrat by his lottery winnings. Flickr Francois-Marie Arouet, better-remembered by his pen name “Voltaire,” was born on this day in 1694 ...

Her husband, Voltaire and Saint Lambert were all devastated by her death. In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman,” Andrew Janiak, a professor of philosophy at Duke University ...

In fact, when the Charlie Hebdo tragedy burst into the news, I was putting the finishing touches to my course this semester for the French Enlightenment. Inevitably, Voltaire was, once again ...

Voltaire and his Enlightenment confrères, the argument goes, were drawn to great-man theories of scientific discovery—Newton and the apple bonking him on his head were enough to usher in a ...