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6 Apr 2017A. C. Grayling's latest book claims that the modern mind emerged from a series of events which took place, and ideas which materialised, in the 17th century. The Age of Genius argues that the forces of democracy, secularism, enlightenment and science triumphed at this time over divine-right monarchy, religious faith, ignorance and tradition.
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2 Nov 2017The disciplinary development of the ‘human sciences’ has attracted extensive scholarly discussion in the last three or four decades.