Thinking about the Enlightenment : modernity and its ramifications / edited by Martin L. Davies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Martin L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

Europe.

Enlightenment--Europe--Influence.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Enlightenment--Influence.

Physical Description:

xiv; 276 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates the problematic legacy of the Enlightenment and the continued ramifications of its thinking since the eighteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The Enlightenment : something to think about ; What does thinking about the Enlightenment mean? ; Enlightenment exactly? ; The Enlightenment's historiographical make-up ; Enlightenment finality ; The Enlightenment as a historical process ; Enlightenment perpetually postponed ; The demise of a 'great truth' ; The Enlightenment's vital energy ; Reading the Enlightenment ; Immediate occasions for knowledge / Martin L. Davies

PART I. Thinking about Kant and the Enlightenment. Kant's concept of enlightenment : individual and universal dimensions / Olga Poznjakova

Rethinking Kant's immaturity in Arendt's post-totalitarian reflection / Tatiana Weiser

PART II. Thinking about Enlightenment and politics. The Enlightenment, encyclopedism and the Natural Rights of Man : the case of the Code of Humanity (1778) / Luigi Delia

Deliberative democrats as the heirs of Enlightenment : between Habermas and Dewey / John Min

PART III. Thinking about Enlightenment and religion. Christianity and Enlightenment : two hermeneutical approaches to their relationship / Salvatore Muscolino

The Enlightenment legacy and European identity : reflections on the Cartoon-Controversy / Carsten Meiner

PART IV. Thinking about Enlightenment and gender. Between shadow and light : women's education / Christophe Regina

'Race', 'sex', and 'gender' : intersections, naturalistic fallacies, and the Age of Reason / Carina Pape

PART V. Thinking about Enlightenment and its limits. Adoption as a limit-case for Enlightenment : Lessing's Nathan der Weise and Kleist's Der Findling / David D. Kim

From unsocial sociability to antagonistic society (and back again) : the historical role and social-scientific presence of an anthropological trope / Tilman Reitz

PART VI. Postscripts : Thinking about Enlightenment thinking. Multiple counter-Enlightenments : the genealogy of a polemics from the eighteenth century to the present / Theo Jung

'The Proper Study of Mankind' : Enlightenment and tautology / Martin L. Davies.

Notes:

Collection of 13 essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138801813

113880181X

9781138801820

1138801828

OCLC:

929917882