Enlightenment
Browse the Enlightenment era within the In Our Time archive.
Edward Gibbon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Kant's Copernican Revolution
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's insight into how we relate to the world around us.
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Emilie du Châtelet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
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Deism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most disruptive ideas of the Enlightenment.
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Kant's Categorical Imperative
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776.
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Bolivar
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
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Catherine the Great
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empress who transformed and modernized Russia.
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Empiricism
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
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Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
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Gothic
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins and significance of the 18th century Gothic movement.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Materialism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Materialism in Philosophy.
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Spinoza
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Dutch, Jewish and Christian Philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.
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Sturm und Drang
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the German artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.
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Taste
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th century obsession with taste.
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The Age of Doubt
Melvyn Bragg examines the spread of religious doubt over the last three centuries.
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The Building of St Petersburg
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the building of St Petersburg.
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The Encyclopédie
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment.
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The Enlightenment in Scotland
Melvyn Bragg examines the emergence and impact of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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The French Revolution's reign of terror
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the reign of terror during the French Revolution.
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The Lunar Society
Melvyn Bragg examines an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.
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The Social Contract
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
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The Sublime
Melvyn Bragg explores a transcendental idea that took hold on the Age of Enlightenment.
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