classicism

Romantic Heroes: Ameliorating the Dark Side of Capitalism

Edmund Burke MP. Portrait by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1769 Introduction The rapid spread of the science-based Enlightenment (c1687-c1804) across Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a cause of much dismay to the reigning monarchies of the time. The source of their anxiety, the philosophes,  were propagating a radical new range of ideas “centered on […]