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Jun 8, 2026Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity | Mindscape 356
Historian Andrea Wulf explores how 18th-century thinkers like Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Jena Circle fundamentally reshaped our understanding of nature, humanity, and the individual, laying the groundwork for modernity and environmentalism.