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Enlightenment
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22 Jul 2005
TL;DR: The post-modern critique, with its attention to difference and discourse, and its attack on the universalizing truths of Enlightenment thinking, has much to offer those who are critical of development theory and practice as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The post-modern critique, with its attention to difference and discourse, and its
attack on the universalizing truths of Enlightenment thinking, has much to offer
those who are critical of development theory and practice. Some Third World and
Western scholars have drawn on this perspective to challenge the assumption that
modernization is necessarily possible or desirable. They have questioned the belief
that Third World development and westernization/modernization are synonomous
and that Western political, social and economic institutions and practices (whether
liberal or socialist) hold the answers to the Third World’s development problems
(Escobar 1984; Ferguson 1985, 1990; Moore 1992).
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: Hulliung as mentioned in this paper restores Rousseau to his historical context, the world of the philosophes, and shows how he employed the arsenal of Voltaire, Diderot, and others to launch a powerful attack on their version of the Enlightenment.
Abstract: Of all the critiques of the Enlightenment, the most telling may be found in the life and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This searching, long overlooked auto critique receives its first full treatment by Mark Hulliung. Here he restores Rousseau to his historical context, the world of the philosophes, and shows how he employed the arsenal of Voltaire, Diderot, and others to launch a powerful attack on their version of the Enlightenment.With great intellectual skill and rhetorical force, Rousseau exposed the inconsistencies and shortcomings of the Enlightenment: the psychology of Locke, the genre of philosophical and conjectural history, the latest applications of science to the study of society and politics, and the growing interest in materialist modes of thought. As the century moved on, Hulliung shows, the most advanced philosophes found themselves drawn to conclusions that paralleled Rousseau's an agreement that went unacknowledged at the time. The Enlightenment that emerges here is richer, more nuanced, and more self-critical than the one reflected in many interpretations. By extracting Rousseau from personal entangle-ments that stymied debate in his time and that mislead critics to this day, Hulliung reveals the remarkable and remarkably unacknowledged force of Rousseau's accomplishment. This edition includes a brilliant new introduction by the author.
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30 Oct 2000
TL;DR: The authors explores the controversial career of jurgen Habermas, whose adherence to the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, humanism, and respect for discourse has set him apart from most postmodernist thinkers.
Abstract: This collection of writings by eminent philosophers explores the controversial career of jurgen Habermas, whose adherence to the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, humanism, and respect for discourse has set him apart from most postmodernist thinkers.
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TL;DR: The authors presented a revision of Franco Venturi's exceptionalist account of England's place in the Enlightenment, and an alternative to Isaiah Berlin's account of the movement through Enlightenment to historicism.
Abstract: As part of a programme of disintegrating and re-assembling the concept or concepts of �Europe�, there is offered (1) a revision of Franco Venturi's exceptionalist account of England's place in Enlightenment, (2) an alternative to Isaiah Berlin's account of the movement through Enlightenment to historicism. The objective is to enhance the British and English role in European intellectual history, while showing that we must rewrite the concept of �Europe� in order to do so. There persists the �Eurosceptical enquiry� whether �Europe� is interested in history at all.
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