Enlightenment - Culture

Culture

  • Age of Enlightenment, period in Western history and its corresponding movement
  • Enlightenment (spiritual), insight or awakening to the true nature of reality
  • Enlightenment in Western secular tradition
  • Enlightenment in Buddhism
  • Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
  • Scottish Enlightenment, period in 18th century Scotland
  • American Enlightenment, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States
  • Enlightenment in Poland, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland
  • Catholic Enlightenment, movement within Catholicism to find answers to the secularism of the Enlightenment
  • Russian Enlightenment, a period in the eighteenth century in which the government in Russia began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences
  • Enlightenment in Spain, Bourbon period of reform and 'enlightened despotism'
  • Modern Greek Enlightenment, an 18th century national revival and educational movement in Greece
  • Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century
  • "Enlightenment", the main artistic performance in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

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    “... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    “Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.”
    —Malcolm McLaren (b. 1946)