Enlightenment and Modernity |
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Editor:
| Geras, Norman Wokler, Robert |
ISBN: | 978-1-280-21852-1 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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This 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...
More DescriptionThis 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.