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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Updated edition with a New afterword by the author
Language:English
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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