The Essay - Enlightenment Voices
Series introducing the great scientists, thinkers and activists of the European Enlightenment
The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Diderot
Series exploring the life and work of French philosopher Denis Diderot, the inspirational driving force behind the greatest publishing enterprise of the Enlightenment, the Encyclopdie
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The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Mary Wollstonecraft
Series exploring the work of Enlightenment philosopher and writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Dubbed the first feminist, she became a role model in the 20th-century fight for gender equality
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The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Robert Hooke
Series introducing the life and work of Robert Hooke, Britain's first paid research scientist and one of the key figures in establishing scienctific knowledge during the 17th century
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The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Smith/Hume
Series exploring the life and work of Scottish philosophers Adam Smith and David Hume. Smith was known as the 'father of modern economics' and Hume was considered an architect of the Enlightenment
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The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Spinoza
Series introducing the work of 17th-century Dutch intellectual Baruch Spinoza. His philosophical writings paved the way for the Enlightenment
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The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Voltaire
Series on the life and work of Enlightenment writer and thinker Voltaire. A prolific polemicist, he wrote some 15 million words, from plays, poems and novesls to pamphlets, letters and essays
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