The Enlightenment : History of an Idea - Updated Edition / Vincenzo Ferrone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrone, Vincenzo, author.

Contributor:

Ferrone, Vincenzo.

Tarantino, Elisabetta.

Standardized Title:

Lezioni illuministiche. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Historiography.

Enlightenment.

enlightenment (18th-century western movement).

Genre:

dissertations.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

Updated edition with a New afterword by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Translated from the Italian.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was-and why it is still relevant today. Ferrone explains why the Enlightenment was a profound and wide-ranging cultural revolution that reshaped Western identity, reformed politics through the invention of human rights, and redefined knowledge by creating a critical culture. These new ways of thinking gave birth to new values that spread throughout society and changed how everyday life was lived and understood. Featuring an illuminating afterword describing how his argument challenges the work of Anglophone interpreters including Jonathan Israel, The Enlightenment provides a fascinating reevaluation of the true nature and legacy of one of the most important and contested periods in Western history.The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS-Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Living the Enlightenment

Acknowledgments

Part I. The Philosophers' Enlightenment

1. Historians and Philosophers

2. Kant: Was ist Aufklärung?

3. Hegel

4. Marx and Nietzsche

5. Horkheimer and Adorno

6. Foucault

7. Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions

Part II. The Hitorians' Enlightenment

8. For a Defense of Historical Knowledge

9. The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy

10. The Enlightenment-French Revolution Paradigm

11. The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem

12. What Was the Enlightenment?

13. Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution

14. Politicization and Natura naturans

Afterword The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Régime's Cultural Revolution?

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version record.

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Other Format:

Print version: Ferrone, Vincenzo. Lezioni illuministiche. Enlightenment

ISBN:

9781400865833 $q (electronic book)

9780691175768

0691175764

9781400865833

1400865832

OCLC:

1080550456