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Enlightenment
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01 Jan 1972
TL;DR: A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore.
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TL;DR: For example, the authors argued that the social democratic movement is not in any better shape than the Jacobin imaginary, and that it has proved incapable of addressing the new demands of recent decades, and its central achievement, the welfare state, has held up badly under attack from the right, because it has not been able to mobilize those who should have interests in defending its achievements.
Abstract: What does it mean to be on the left today? In the twilight years of the twentieth century is it in any way meaningful to invoke the Enlightenment ideals that lay behind the project of the transformation of society? We are undoubtedly living through the crisis of the Jacobin imaginary, which has, in diverse ways, characterized the revolutionary politics of the last two hundred years. It is unlikely that marxism will recover from the blows it has suffered; not only the discredit brought upon the Soviet model by the analysis of totalitarianism, but also the challenge to class reductionism posed by the emergence of new social movements. But the fraternal enemy, the social democratic movement, is not in any better shape. It has proved incapable of addressing the new demands of recent decades, and its central achievement, the welfare state, has held up badly under attack from the right, because it has not been able to mobilize those who should have interests in defending its achievements. As for the ideal of socialism, what seems to be in question is the very idea of progress that is bound up with the project of modernity. In this respect, discussion of the postmodern, which until now had focused on culture, has taken a political turn. Alas, the debate all too quickly petrified around a set of simplistic and sterile positions. Whereas Habermas accuses of conservatism all those who criticize the universalist ideal of the Enlightenment,' Lyotard declares with pathos that after Auschwitz the project of modernity has been eliminated.2 Richard Rorty rightly remarks that one finds on both sides an illegitimate assimilation of the political project of the Enlightenment and its epistemological aspects. This is why Lyotard
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TL;DR: The authors look critically at the influence of post-modern philosophy, especially that of Foucault, on critical accounting, and argue that at the same time that we are rejecting one orthodoxy, we may be replacing it with another.
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01 Dec 1996
TL;DR: A note to readers Prologue 1. The nations's dream-work 2. The formal imagination, II: Natural history and the national pedagogy - the case of Korais 4. The punishment of philhellenism 5. The phatasms of writing, I: Makriyiannis and the miracles of national memory 6. Nostalgia for Utopia - the idolatries of Seferis 7.
Abstract: A note to readers Prologue 1. The nations's dream-work 2. The formal imagination, I: The back roads of development from enlightenment to bureaucracy 3. The formal imagination, II: Natural history and the national pedagogy - the case of Korais 4. The punishment of philhellenism 5. The phatasms of writing, I: Makriyiannis and the miracles of national memory 6. The phatasms of writing, II: Nostalgia for Utopia - the idolatries of Seferis 7. Homologia Apologia: the writing of national history Works cited Index.
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