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Enlightenment
About: Enlightenment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6845 publications have been published within this topic receiving 116832 citations.
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30 Sep 1994
TL;DR: In this paper, a biographical sketch of Joseph Banks is described, from virtuoso to botanist, from Antiquarian to anthropologist, and from anthropologist to scientist.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Joseph Banks - a biographical sketch 2. The limits of enlightenment 3. From virtuoso to botanist 4. Antiquarian to anthropologist 5. The principles and practice of improvement 6. The waning of the English Enlightenment Abbreviations Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: In 1971, Michele Duchet published Anthropologie et histoire au siecle des lumieres (Anthropology and History in the Century of the Enlightenment), which provided a sweeping analysis of the French p....
Abstract: In 1971, Michele Duchet published Anthropologie et histoire au siecle des lumieres (Anthropology and History in the Century of the Enlightenment), which provided a sweeping analysis of the French p...
124 citations
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19 Sep 2000
TL;DR: This article analyzed the theological, medical and scientific critique of "enthusiasm" in early modern Europe, and the contribution of that critique to a more secular culture on the eve of the Enlightenment.
Abstract: This book analyses the theological, medical and scientific critique of “enthusiasm” — claims to direct divine inspiration — in early modern Europe, and the contribution of that critique to a more secular culture on the eve of the Enlightenment.
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TL;DR: The authors argues that two distinct concepts of Enlightenment coexist uneasily in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, and argues that a reconsideration of the latter concept reveals of a model of early Critical Theory that can still provide a compelling alternative not only to Dialectical of Enlightenment but also to more recent attempts t...
Abstract: This article argues that two distinct concepts of Enlightenment coexist uneasily in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. According to the first, genealogical concept, Enlightenment is a bewildered form of self-preservation that has existed since the dawn of Western civilization. The second, critical historicist concept views Enlightenment as the critical and anti-authoritarian ideals articulated—most radically in eighteenth-century France—during the uneven development of modern bourgeois society. After examining the origins of these two concepts in Adorno and Horkheimer’s early writings, the article demonstrates why the former became dominant in Dialectic of Enlightenment, while at the same time pointing to significant traces of the latter that remained. The article contends that a reconsideration of the latter concept reveals of a model of early Critical Theory that can still provide a compelling alternative not only to Dialectic of Enlightenment, but also to more recent attempts t...
122 citations