Inventions of Enlightenment since 1800 : concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung / edited by Nicholas Cronk and Élisabeth Décultot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cronk, Nicholas, editor.

Décultot, Elisabeth, editor.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2634-8047 2023:11.

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2634-8047 ; 2023:11

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment.

Liberalism--History.

Liberalism.

enlightenment (18th-century western movement).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xii, 360 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2023]

Language Note:

Eleven essays in English, four in French.

Summary:

"Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century. Since the French Revolution we have grappled with the concepts of Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung, in an attempt to understand how these eighteenth-century concepts continue to shape and influence modern notions of liberal culture. This collection of essays approaches these important questions in a resolutely European and multi-lingual perspective"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions Lumières, d'Enlightenment et d'Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980 / Nicholas Cronk and Élisabeth Décultot

Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières / Christian Helmreich

Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856; deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle / Élisabeth Décultot

Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch / Daniel Weidner

Understanding, radicalising and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel's use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy / Francesca Iannelli

Les Lumières à l'épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d'éloquence à l'Académie française (1831-1904) / Stéphane Zékian

After Carlyle: 'Enlightenment' in Vicctorian Britain / Brian W. Young

Germanising the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dithey's Aufklärung / Avi Lifschitz

Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils / Nicholas Cronk

The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900 / Andrew Kahn

The dilemma of Enlightenment German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century / Mike Rottmann

Nihilism, Enlightenment and the 'new failure of nerve': arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947 / James Schmidt

Ideas in action: Franco Venturi's Settecento / Ruggero Sciuto

The question of Peter Gay's Enlightenment: between 'heavenly city' and the 'brute facts of political life' (1948-1956) / Gregory S. Brown

'Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist weider da': activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left an in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR / Daniel Fulda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781802078763

1802078762

OCLC:

1400080052