Thenceforth, the state carried through only minor reforms, none of them on a scale commensurate with the needs felt by the Enlightenment bourgeoisie and notables of the cities and towns.
Voltaire, Denis Diderot, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau dominated the 18th century, especially with their philosophical writings, though they made major contributions to all genres, and Voltaire's novel Candide (1759) is notable for its literary quality and distillation of Enlightenment ideals.
Nearby Weimar, the ducal capital of this wildly beautiful region of ancient forests and dark valleys, had become world famous at the end of the Enlightenment not as a tourist destination but as the adopted home of Germany's most notable citizen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), who moved there in 1775.
As various scholars have pointed out, Adam Smith drank deep at this particular well, and (like the most notable founders of the new American republic and most other Enlightenment-era intellectuals) shared this Greco-Roman faith in the restoration of traditional balance, even without, or in spite of, human efforts.
Living in the Material World is notable for the uncompromising lyrical content of its songs, reflecting Harrison's struggle for spiritual enlightenment against his status as a superstar, as well as for what many commentators consider to be the finest guitar and vocal performances of his career.
The most notable of these features are its expansive political activities and its hybrid combination of Enlightenment-based rationality with postmodern themes and concerns.
Any enlightenment appreciated".
The Enlightenment had deceived him.
Ever since Enlightenment philosophers conceived of men and animals as machines, clever people have found reasons and means to enforce the idea; this book presents notable automatons, both genuine and fake, down to Thomas Edison's time.
