The Idea of Enlightenment : : A Postmortem Study / / Robert Bartlett.
In "The Idea of Enlightenment", Robert Bartlett explores the roots of the contemporary dissatisfaction with the modern Enlightenment, the momentous political-philosophical project that sought to liberate politics from religious control. What is unsatisfactory about our post-Enlightenment c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE. The Collapse of the Modern Enlightenment
- Chapter 1. The Contemporary Consensus
- Chapter 2. The Project of Enlightenment and the Foundation of Modern Political Rationalism: Notes on Bayle and Montesquieu
- Chapter 3. On the Possibility of a Return to Premodern Rationalism: Alasdair MacIntyre and Leo Strauss
- PART TWO. An Introduction to the Ancient Enlightenment
- Chapter 4. Politics and the Divine in the Ancient Community: On Thucydides' War of the Peloponnesians and Athenians
- Chapter 5. The Original Understanding of Enlightenment: On the 'Cave' in Plato's Republic
- Chapter 6. The Limits of Enlightenment: Aristotle's Politics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index