Rethinking the Enlightenment (eBook)

Between History, Philosophy, and Politics

Geoff Boucher, Henry Martyn Lloyd (Herausgeber)

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2017
280 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5813-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in history, philosophy, and politics and moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.

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One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into question many of the cliches that still dominate scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment's literary, philosophical, and political culture. Yet this work has so far had little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on its legacy, namely, philosophy and political science. Edited by Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of 'Continental' philosophy and political theory. In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.

Autor

Geoff Boucher is associate professor at Deakin University.Henry Martyn Lloyd is a junior research fellow in Enlightenment studies at the University of Sydney.

Inhalt

1: What is it to Rethink the Enlightenment?Henry Martyn Lloyd2: Contemporary Political Theory as an Anti-Enlightenment Project Dennis C. Rasmussen3: What of All the Others? On Recovering the EnlightenmentMatthew Sharpe4: What Sort of Question Was Kant Answering When He Answered the Question: “What Is Enlightenment?”? James Schmidt5: Catharine Macaulay as Critic of HumeKaren Green6: The Principled Enlightenment: Condillac, d’Alembert and Principle Minimalism Peter R. Anstey7: Reason and Rationality within the “Enlightenment of Sensibility”; Or, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and French Philosophy’s First “Linguistic Turn”Henry Martyn Lloyd8: Knowing Otherwise: An Ethics of Feeling Daniel Brewer9: Emotional Enlightenment: Kant on Love and the Beautiful Marguerite La Caze10: A Road Not Taken: Critical Theory after Dialectic of EnlightenmentGeoff Boucher11: The Enlightenment: A Signifier of “Western Values”? Genevieve LloydContributor Biographies

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2017
• Co-Autor: Peter R. Anstey, Matthew Sharpe, Geoff Boucher, Daniel Brewer, Marguerite La Caze, Karen Green, Genevieve Lloyd, Henry Martyn Lloyd, Dennis C. Rasmussen, James Schmidt
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Adam Smith • Adorno • Condillac • Continental Philosophy • Critical theory • Cultural Studies • D'Alembert • Diderot • Eighteenth Century • Hegel • History of Philosophy • history of political thought • Horkheimer • Hume • Intellectual history • Kant • Long Eighteenth Century • Montesquieu • Philosophes • philosophical history • Political Philosophy • political theory • Voltaire
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5813-5 / 1498558135
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5813-6 / 9781498558136