Enlightenment

About: Enlightenment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6845 publications have been published within this topic receiving 116832 citations.

Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement

Abstract: Interpreting the Enlightenment: Metaphysics, Tradition, and PoliticsIn Praise of ProgressInventing LiberalismThe Great Divide: Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the Public SphereAbolishing the Ghetto: Anti-Semitism, Racism, and the OtherThe Illusory Dialectic: From Enlightenment to TotalitarianismExperiencing Reality: The Culture Industry, Subjectivity, and IdentityPathways to Freedom: Rights, Reciprocity, and the Cosmopolitan SensibilityRenewing the Legacy: Renewing the Legacy

Reclaiming Theology for the Enlightenment: The Case of Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten (1706–1757)

Abstract: The new millennium appears to be ushering in a new view of the Enlightenment. The synthesis of the 1930s to the 1970s had posited a unitary Enlightenment that was the matrix of a modern secular or secularizing culture. The authority of reason and science either fully displaced, or fundamentally challenged and thus forced the reconstruction of, the claims of belief and tradition. From the 1970s a social history of ideas and institutions explored the Enlightenment's seemingly infinite regional and national variations, subverting the unitary notion and yielding a mass of new information. The works of J.G.A. Pocock and Jonathan Israel, James E. Bradley and Dale K. Van Kley, have begun to build on this accumulated scholarship, offering a new synthesis that rests on two related notions.

The Enlightenment and Modernity

Abstract: Notes on the Contributors Editor's Preface Introduction R.Wokler PART I: INTERPRETING ENLIGHTENMENT PRINCIPLES The Sceptical Enlightenment: Philosopher Travellers look back at Europe U.Vogel Education Can Do All G.Parry Kant: The Arch-enlightener A.T.Baumeister Kant, Property and the General Will H.Steiner Can Enlightenment Morality be Justified Teleologically? I.Carter Ganging a'gley A.Edwards PART II: ASSESSING THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROOTS OF MODERNITY English Conservatism and Enlightenment Rationalism I.Holliday Four Assumptions about Human Nature N.Geras The Enlightenment, the Nation-state and the Primal Patricide of Modernity R.Wokler Critique and Enlightenment: Michael Foucault on Was ist Aufklarung M.P.d'Entreves The Enlightenment, Contractualism, and the Moral Polity V.Bufacchi Index

Wittgenstein and post‐analytic philosophy of education: Rorty or Lyotard?

Abstract: I was thinking about my philosophical work and saying to myself: ‘I destroy, I destroy, I destroy…’ Context: The ‘linguistic turn’ of Western philosophy (Heidegger's later works, the penetration of Anglo-American philosophies into European thought, the development of language technologies); and correlatively, the decline of universalist discourses (the metaphysical doctrines of modern times: narratives of progress, of socialism, of abundance, of knowledge). The weariness with regard to ‘theory’, and the miserable slackening that goes along with it (new this, new that, post-this, post-that, etc.). The time has come to philosophize. …there is no danger of philosophy's ‘coming to an end’. Religion did not come to an end in the Enlightenment, nor painting in Impressionism. Even if the period from Plato to Nietzsche is encapsulated and ‘distanced’ in the way Heidegger suggests, and even if twentieth-century philosophy comes to seem a stage of awkward transitional backing and filling (as sixteenth-century philosophy now seems to us), there will be something called ‘philosophy’ on the other side of the transition.