Savoir et valeur. Pour une conception émancipatrice des « Éducations à » by Michel Fabre

“…That thereby regains Enlightenment and Condorcet’s thinking.…”
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Inżynieria genetyczna w świetle dialektyki oświecenia by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…This article presents the ambivalent character of the Enlightenment’s legacy, which aside from promised progress brought also new dangers. …”
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“Depth of field” or “negative forms”: space/syntax from HDR digital photography to hypermedia navigation by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…It then looks at the broader chronological context of the interplay of distance and foreground, such as framing structures and brushwork texture in classical landscapes, the role of shadows in painting from Leonardo to Enlightenment theories on perception, the exploration of atmospheric effects and of lighting by Victorian artists and scientists ranging from stage sets to physicists’ experiments. …”
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Dynamiques Territoriales et Proximité Environnementale : le cas du Risque d'Inondation by Christophe Beaurain, Jérôme Longuépée

“…Besides this analytic aspect, our second objective is to demonstrate that the integration of new actors and objects within the proximity field (environment, hazards, municipalities and households) arouses a topical enlightenment as regards the importance of forms of geographical proximity from a co-ordination perspective.…”
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Positive models of suffering and psychiatry by Ahmed Samei Huda

“…In the positive model, suffering can contain an important message of needed change, indicate a response to a psychosocial predicament or be a route to spiritual enlightenment. This approach is briefly critiqued, and circumstances where patients might prefer this approach are described. …”
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À la recherche des réseaux intertextuels : défis de la recherche littéraire à grande échelle by Valentina Fedchenko, Dario Maria Nicolosi, Glenn Roe

“…This article outlines some of the challenges that have arisen during the first phases of the ERC-funded Modern project, a five-year research programme that takes a new “data driven” approach to the literary history of the French Enlightenment. Drawing on a large curated corpus of French texts of the Early Modern period, the authors describe in detail the various steps for building intertextual networks using the output of text reuse algorithms. …”
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Dziecięce filozofowanie na tle romantycznej wizji szlachetnego dzikusa J.J. Rousseau by Maria Szczepska-Pustkowska

“…One of such theories was born thanks to Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), thanks to which the Enlightenment and the Romanticism discovered the noble savage child immersed in nature. …”
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A estética contemporânea: nova poética, novo olhar by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…One aspect of this panorama is the distrust of speech structures once considered stables that seemed to characterize the modernist language, and also the consciense of the precarious status of the groundworks and determinations, which is disseminated in the idea of scattering, of insuficiency of the dialectics supported by enlightenment and rationalism. This attitude tends to produce an aesthetics of unfamiliarity, in which literature is inclined to be seen as a singular activity, as an indiferentiated act achieved by the one who writes, in the obscure and silent side of language. …”
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EFFECT OF PHAGOTHERAPY IN A PATIENT WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS: A CLINICAL CASE STUDY by Сергей Федорович Гладков, Нина Константиновна Перевощикова, Наталья Степановна Черных

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Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language by Kári Driscoll

“…This essay takes a pivotal scene in Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried, in which the eponymous hero attempts to communicate with a forest bird by imitating its song, as a point of departure for an exploration of Enlightenment theories of the origin of language, specifically those of Rousseau and Herder. …”
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Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria by Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

“…The essay concludes by arguing for a rigorous public enlightenment as well as a reform of the educational curriculum through an injection of virtue ethics. …”
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De l’idéologie d’État au film d’éducation : itinéraire comparé de la France, de l’Italie et des États-Unis dans les années vingt by Christel Taillibert

“…These values are, in France, the inheritance of the Enlightenment, strengthened by the republican ideals stemming from the French Revolution and the state educational model created by Jules Ferry; in Italy, Mussolini’s Nationalist Postulate, and his desire to form a “New Man”, a “regenerated race” of Italians and in the US, the raising of moral standards and the affirmation of inter-culturalism in the already well implanted notion of the “American Way of Life”. …”
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Flaubert lecteur de l’« Apologie de Raimond Sebond » by Timothy Chesters

“…But they also register a desire, widespread since the Enlightenment, to set a kind of limit on the essayist’s ‘que sçay-je?’. …”
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Sensibilité et esthétisme dans la pratique de l'histoire naturelle en France (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) : un héritage de la culture de la curiosité by Marie Lemonnier

“…This conception of science is often associated with romanticism as a literary movement and thus, opposed to the utilitarian discourse about nature of the Enlightenment. This article is a short reflection on the origins of this convergence between aesthetic, sensibility and science in natural history. …”
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Historical reality and „understanding" the hermeneutical approach by Kęstutis Dubnikas

“…From the hermeneutical point of view, conversely, the individual self-consciousness cannot be constituted neither along the lines of Cartesian Ego, nor along the lines of the Enlightenment's understanding of a totally autonomous Ego. …”
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Une justice froide ? L’ambiance thermique dans le palais de justice de Paris au XVIIIe siècle by Adrien Pitor

“…This is all the more striking since it sheds light on the lack of consideration of the Enlightenment’s theoretical reflections on and technical advances in thermal perception. …”
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Znaczenie „protestantyzacji” dla zmiany modelu kultury serbskiej w wieku XVIII by Dorota Gil

“…This is important especially with regard to the Pietistic ideas, combined with those of the Enlightenment, promoted by these centres. …”
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Den europæiske unions harmonisering af strafferetten by Thomas Elholm

“…It is suggested that important principles underlying the criminal codes of EU Member States since the Enlightenment are not always respected nor even discussed in regard to EU legislation on harmonisation. …”
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La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX) by David Martín López

“…Freemasonry, considered as one of the first “social network”, emerged in contemporary society of the pre-Enlightenment in England (1717), draw a global map of corporatism – whether philanthropic, educational, ethical, moral and even political senses could met there – with the principles and aesthetic values associated with arts and architecture. …”
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The politics of critique: On the socio-politically engaged dimension of Foucault's methodology by Urošević Milan

“…In this chapter we will present his concept of enlightenment, as an ethical tradition in which both his intellectual and political work can be situated. …”
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