Liberté, Égalité, Révolution! – The role of political liberty in the 18th century

The Era of Enlightenment has many faces: Alongside experimental scientific findings and radical social changes that contributed to establishing a new bourgeois public sphere, its demands for equality and freedom led to the “Age of Revolutions”. Harriet Merrow, project assistant on the DHM exhibition “What is Enlightenment?”, examines its interrelationships on the basis of the struggles for liberty in an increasingly complex, geopolitical power structure.