
356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 6/8/2026
All ideas have a history, no matter how inevitable and well-entrenched they may seem to us today. The later Enlightenment was a heady time when people were exploring new conceptions of nature, humanity, and the self. Andrea Wulf is a writer of narrative histories, examining the origins of ideas…