Professor Andrew Burstein talked about the Enlightenment era in America and the ideas that shaped the politics and morals of the Revolutionary generation. He spoke about Benjamin Franklin’s ...

Yet while the names most remembered from the Enlightenment era – Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Paine – belong to men, there were many women … Close. Advertisement.

In truth, though, John V. Fleming's "The Dark Side of the Enlightenment" and Paul Kleber Monod's "Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment" are surprisingly different ...