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[https://habib.camden.rutgers.edu/introductions/enlightenment/ by M.A. Rafey Habib RUTGERS] | [https://habib.camden.rutgers.edu/introductions/enlightenment/ by M.A. Rafey Habib RUTGERS] | ||
The Enlightenment was a broad intellectual tendency, spanning philosophy, literature, language, art, religion and political theory, which lasted from around 1680 until the end of the eighteenth century. Conventionally, the Enlightenment has been called the “age of reason,” though this designation is now regarded as somewhat reductive since it fails to comprehend the various intellectual trends of the period. | The Enlightenment was a broad intellectual tendency, spanning philosophy, literature, language, art, religion and political theory, which lasted from around 1680 until the end of the eighteenth century. Conventionally, the Enlightenment has been called the “age of reason,” though this designation is now regarded as somewhat reductive since it fails to comprehend the various intellectual trends of the period. | ||
=====What was the Enlightenment?— An Introduction to 'Dare To Know'===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1dVBU3S9Oo by Harvard Art Museums YouTube] | |||
“Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment,” is a special exhibition which looks at 150 works on paper from the 18th century that were a site for experimentation and a place to dream a new way of life and a new reality. The exhibition asks new and sometimes uncomfortable questions of the so-called age of reason, inviting visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. Exhibition is on view at the Harvard Art Museums through January 15, 2023. #DareToKnow | |||
