The Legacy of the Enlightenment : Ambivalences of Modernity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilti, Antoine.

Series:

The Life of Ideas Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Philosophy, French.

Local Subjects:

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.

Summary:

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enlightenment as having been, above all else, a self-critical enterprise.The Enlightenment has come under substantial attack over the past several years, with some going so far as to recommend leaving behind its thinkers and their Eurocentric prejudices.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Introduction

PART I Universalism

CHAPTER ONE The Postcolonial Challenge

CHAPTER TWO Is Civilization European?

CHAPTER THREE The Impossible Global History

PART II Modernity

CHAPTER FOUR Private Lives, Public Space

CHAPTER FIVE Enlightenment Radicals?

PART III Politics

CHAPTER SIX Can One Enlighten the People?

CHAPTER SEVEN Farewell, Socrates

CHAPTER EIGHT The Diagnosis of Modernity

CONCLUSION. Problematizing Modernity

NOTES

INDEX

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ISBN:

0-226-82062-9

9780226820620

OCLC:

1568063581