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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Ferrone, Vincenzo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ferrone, Vincenzo.; Tarantino, Elisabetta.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Updated edition with a New afterword by the author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of 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