The Legacy of the Enlightenment
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
9780226820613 (ISBN)
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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. In response, the most orthodox defenders of the Enlightenment have insisted that its values are not just foundational but indispensable and that abandoning them would mean opening the door to nihilism and relativism. For Antoine Lilti, one of the leading scholars of the French Enlightenment, both sides are wrong.
In this tactfully argued series of essays, Lilti emphasizes a non-dogmatic, non-ideological view of the Enlightenment—one that sees its legacy as a critical, attentive approach that can and should serve as its own best critic. Along the way, he engages with everyone from Rousseau and Kant to Foucault and Habermas, as well as prominent contemporary voices, such as Jonathan Israel. The result is a remarkable new reading of the Enlightenment that redraws the stakes of old debates and offers an alternative way to engage with both canonical thinkers and later scholarship that is both honest about the past and useful for the future.
Antoine Lilti is professor at the Collège de France, where he holds the chair in the History of the Enlightenment, 18th to 21st century. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Invention of Celebrity. C. Jon Delogu is professor in the English Department at Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3. He has translated over a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction, and is the author of three of his own on Emerson, Tocqueville, and the temptations fascism poses during vulnerable times.
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Universalism
1: The Postcolonial Challenge
2: Is Civilization European?
3: The Impossible Global History
Part II: Modernity
4: Private Lives, Public Space
5: Enlightenment Radicals?
Part III: Politics
6: Can One Enlighten the People?
7: Farewell, Socrates
8: The Diagnosis of Modernity
Conclusion: Problematizing Modernity
Notes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Life of Ideas |
| Übersetzer | C. Jon Delogu |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780226820613 / 9780226820613 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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