Special edition The Enlightenment

The modern age began with the Enlightenment. Human rights, democracy, separation of church and state, the scientific method, women's emancipation: all these beautiful things can be traced back to ideas that flourished in the eighteenth century. The debate over the meaning of the breakthrough of reason continues. Critics complain of excessive rationalism and moral emptiness.

The special edition The Enlightenment of EW highlights the fascinating and powerful spiritual movement from many sides. With historical and philosophical analyses, reports, interviews with prominent thinkers such as John Gray, Steven Pinker and Herman Philipse, an essay by legal scholar and philosopher Paul Cliteur, portraits of leading Dutch Enlightenment thinkers and scientists, stories about the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the French and American Revolution and the Encyclopédie.

In this way, a richly illustrated magazine of 100 pages creates a colorful and nuanced picture of an era whose influence can hardly be overestimated.