Walter Donway
b. 1944
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Walter Donway has published more than a dozen books, available on Amazon, including Not Half Free:The Myth that America is Capitalist and Media Wars (co-authored with Vinay Kolhatkar).He was an executive at two New York City foundations and founding editor of Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science. His latest novel, Retaking College Hill, is a political thriller about the battle against postmodernism on an Ivy League campus.
In The Reading Room:
- Immanuel Kant and the “Crisis of the Enlightenment” ()
- The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes “Puts the Century on Edge” ()
- The Eighteenth Century’s Boundless Optimism Collides with David Hume ()
- David Hume: Skepticism, Pessimism, Enlightenment ()
- Blaise Pascal Bets It All on God ()
- René Descartes Dreams the “Philosopher’s Dream”—And Launches Modern Philosophy ()
- Isaac Newton’s Principia and Life after It ()
- Scholasticism: How a Philosophical Monopoly Succumbs to New Ideas ()
- Isaac Newton: History’s Greatest Mad (Angry?) Scientist ()
- James Watt: Industrial Revolution Spark Plug and Enlightenment “New Philosopher” ()
- Voltaire: The First Internationally Celebrated Writer? ()
- Voltaire: The French Enlightenment Is Born ()
- The Enlightenment as Method: Rebirth, Science, Humanism, Reformation ()
- John Playfair: The Scottish Enlightenment’s Sherlock Holmes of Geological Science ()
- The Enlightenment as Methodology (Part One) ()
- Visions of Unlimited Progress: Denis Diderot and the Encyclopedia of the French Philosophes ()
- John Locke Foments Revolution in the Name of “The Rights of Man” ()
- John Locke and the New Course of Enlightenment Reason: Empiricism ()
- Jefferson Takes Notes and Copies Quotes on Ideas for the New Republic ()
- Cesare Beccaria’s Ideas on Criminal Law Shape the Bill of Rights ()
- The French Revolution Spawns the Terror—and the Classic Conservatism of Burke ()
- What Irish Enlightenment? The Case of Edmund Burke ()
- What Irish Enlightenment? The Case of Maria Edgeworth ()
- What “Irish Enlightenment”? The Case of George Berkeley ()
- What “Irish Enlightenment”? The case of Jonathan Swift ()
- What “Irish Enlightenment”? The Case of John Toland ()
- The Russian Enlightenment and Its “Absolutist” Champions ()
- Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe “Gets Religion” ()
- Daniel Defoe: Religious Liberty in An Age of Militant Sectarianism ()
- The “Pamphlet Wars” Climax in the American Revolution and Ratification Debate ()
- Tracing Turkey’s Creation to French Enlightenment’s Influence ()
- Kemal Atatürk Founds a Twentieth-century Islamic Nation Rooted in Enlightenment Ideas ()
- Robert Burns and the Theory of Moral Sentiments ()
- The Enlightenment of Robert Burns ()
- Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Man Who Was “Civilization and Enlightenment” in Japan ()
- Walt Whitman: Poet of American Democratic Individualism ()
- Henry Maine’s “Society of Status” Under Feudalism ()
- William Blake: Romantic Poet and Enlightenment Man? ()
- William Blake, the Romantic Revolution, and Liberty ()
- The Poet as Intellectual: How the Romantics Took on Thomas Malthus ()
- Ethan Allen, Individualism, and Deism ()
- Ethan Allen: Yankee Extraordinaire ()
- Shelley's “Ode to Liberty” Infuriated Reviewers—but Made J. S. Mill Weep ()