Curated category
Philosophical schools and traditions
- Age of EnlightenmentThe year 1637 marked a turning point when René Descartes published his Discourse on the Method. This text introduced a radical approach to knowledge that…
- PostmodernismThe word postmodern first appeared in print during 1870. Artist John Watkins Chapman used the phrase to describe a Postmodern style of painting that departed…
- Phenomenology (philosophy)The word phenomenology entered the English language around the turn of the 18th century, long before Edmund Husserl claimed it as his own.
- School of IsfahanShah Abbas of the Safavid dynasty turned his attention to intellectual traditions in Islam during the early 17th century.
- Renaissance humanismIn the final years of the thirteenth century, a cultural shift began in Tuscany and the Veneto region. Manuscripts and inscriptions were in high demand as…