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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-100312223854

ISBN-139780312223854

eBay Product ID (ePID)874106

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXv, 232 Pages

Publication NameEnlightenment and Modernity

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

SubjectModern / 18th Century, History & Theory, History & Surveys / Modern, Political

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

AuthorRobert Wokler

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Political Science, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN99-025944

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal190

Table Of ContentPart I: Interpreting Enlightenment Principles* The Boundaries of Universalism: Philosopher Travelers in the Enlightenment--Ursula Vogel *L'Éducation peut tout:Education Can Do All--Geraint Parry * Kant: The Arch-Enlightener--Andrea Baumeister * Kant, Property and the General Will--Hillel Steiner * Equality from an Enlightenment Perspective--Ian Carter * Unintended Consequences and the Muddied Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment--Alistair Edwards *Part II: Assessing the Enlightenment Roots of Modernity* English Conservatism and Enlightenment Rationalism--Ian Holliday * Four Assumptions About Human Nature--Norman Geras * The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Origins of Modernity--Robert Wokler * Habermas and Foucalt on the Enlightenment--Maurizio Passerin d'EntrÈves * The Normative Foundation of Society: Two Legacies of the Social Contract Tradition--Vittoria Bufacchi Part I: Interpreting Enlightenment Principles* The Boundaries of Universalism: Philosopher Travelers in the Enlightenment--Ursula Vogel *L'Éducation peut tout:Education Can Do All--Geraint Parry * Kant: The Arch-Enlightener--Andrea Baumeister * Kant, Property and the General Will--Hillel Steiner * Equality from an Enlightenment Perspective--Ian Carter * Unintended Consequences and the Muddied Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment--Alistair Edwards *Part II: Assessing the Enlightenment Roots of Modernity* English Conservatism and Enlightenment Rationalism--Ian Holliday * Four Assumptions About Human Nature--Norman Geras * The Enlightenment and the French Revolutionary Origins of Modernity--Robert Wokler * Habermas and Foucalt on the Enlightenment--Maurizio Passerin d'EntrÈves * The Normative Foundation of Society: Two Legacies of the Social Contract Tradition--Vittoria Bufacchi

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThis collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization. Each author offers an interpretation of modern or postmodern philosophy against the background of a so-called Enlightenment Project, envisaged as the conceptual ghost that haunts modernity.

LC Classification NumberB65