The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries
The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions.
The Enlightenment helped combat the excesses of the church, establish science as a source of knowledge, and defend human rights against tyranny. It also gave us modern schooling, medicine, republics, representative democracy, and much more.
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The last five decades comprise the period from 1970 to 2020. Three achievements are of great importance:
- Massification of personal computers: helped by Bill Gates' Microsoft and Steve Jobs' Apple, personal computers became common in offices in the late 1980s, and common in households in the early and mid 1990s, increasing productivity, and literally chaging the world.
- Internet: the internet was not invented in the last five decades but it became a mass service in the late 1990s. Without the internet, computers (and nowadays smartphones) would not be as powerful and important. The internet has changed every single aspect of our lives, from the way we communicate to the way we work.
- The end of the Cold War: this is a political and economic achievement, not a technological one like the previous two. However, it is still of great importance. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the end of the Cold War marked the origin of the world order in which we live today, a world order where capitalism and representative democracy are considered the best alternatives for economic and social organization.
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<span>Noam Chomsky is one of the most recognized names of our time; his contributions to linguistics and the implications of his theories for studies on the workings of the human mind have rocked the intellectual world for over fifty years, beginning with the critical reception of his first book on Syntactic Structures (1957), his </span><span>review of Skinner’s Verbal Behaviour for Language in 1959, and the range of books he produced in the 1960s, including his assessment of Current Issues in Linguistic Theory</span><span> in 1964,</span><span> Aspects of the Theory of Syntax<span> in 1965, Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar in 1966, Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought, also in 1966, Language and Mind in 1968, and (with Morris Halle) The Sound Pattern of English (1968). Since then, the flow of linguistic work has been profuse, as Chomsky overturned</span></span><span>prevailing paradigms in fields concerned with the study of language and set the stage for the rethinking of the whole field of linguistics, often with overt reference to approaches first articulated during the Enlightenment. During this same period, Chomsky’s very public crusade against the Vietnam War, recorded in the pages of the New York Review of Books and assembled in </span>American Power and the New Mandarins,<span> his on-going critique of American foreign policy, his analyses of the Middle East and Central America, his long-standing local and international activism, and his studies (sometimes with Edward Herman) of how media functions in contemporary society, have combined to provoke some very strong feelings, positive and negative, about him and his work. The effect that he has upon people on account of his actions and his views extends across national, social, and institutional lines, and the ever-growing corpus of work he has undertaken in the political realm is a remarkable testament to what an intellectual can accomplish when engaged ‘beyond the ivory tower’.</span>
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