Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is Enlightenment?Condition: NewEAN: 9780520202269ISBN: 9780520202269Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/08/1996Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 36mmItem Weight: 771gContributor: James Schmidt (Edited by)Author: James SchmidtLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century QuestionsISBN-10: 0520202260Description: This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present. In recent years, critics from across the political and philosophical spectrum have condemned the Enlightenment for its complicity with any number of present-day social and cultural maladies. It has rarely been noticed, however, that at the end of the Enlightenment, German thinkers had already begun a scrutiny of their age so wide-ranging that there are few subsequent criticisms that had not been considered by the close of the eighteenth century. Among the concerns these essays address are the importance of freedom of expression, the relationship between faith and reason, and the responsibility of the Enlightenment for revolutions.Included are translations of works by such well-known figures as Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Johann Georg Hamann, as well as essays by thinkers whose work is virtually unknown to American readers. These eighteenth-century texts are set against interpretive essays by such major twentieth-century figures as Max Horkheimer, Jurgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Philosophical TraditionsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is Enlightenment?
Title: What Is Enlightenment?
EAN: 9780520202269
ISBN: 9780520202269
Release Date: 09/08/1996
Release Year: 1996
Contributor: James Schmidt (Edited by)
Subtitle: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions
ISBN-10: 0520202260
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 500 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Enlightenment? : Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Political
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 27.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: James Schmidt
Subject Area: Philosophy, History
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Philosophical Traditions Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
