What is Enlightenment? : eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions
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 ra
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Introduction : what is enlightenment? : a question, its context, and some consequences / James Schmidt
What is to be done toward the enlightenment of the citizenry? / Johann Karl Möshen (1783)
On the question : what is enlightenment? / Moses Mendelssohn (1784)
An answer to the question : what is enlightenment? / Immanuel Kant (1784)
Thoughts on enlightenment / Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1784)
A couple of gold nuggets, from the ... wastepaper, or six answers to six questions / Christoph Martin Wieland (1789)
On freedom of thought and of the press : for princes, ministers, and writers / Ernst Ferdinand Klein (1784)
On freedom of the press and its limits : for consideration by rulers, censors, and writers / Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1787)
Publicity / Friedrich Karl von Moser (1792)
Reclamation of the freedom of thought from the princes of Europe, who have oppressed it until now / Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1793). Letter to Christian Jacob Kraus ; Metacritique on the purism of reason / Johann George Hamann (1784)
On enlightenment : is it and could it be dangerous to the state, to religion, or dangerous in general? : a word to be heeded by princes, statesmen, and clergy / Andreas Riem (1788)
Something Lessing said : a commentary on Journeys of the popes / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1782)
True and false political enlightenment / Friedrich Karl von Moser (1792)
On the influence of enlightenment on revolutions / Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk (1794)
Does enlightenment cause revolutions? / Johann Adam Bergk (1795)
The Berlin Wednesday Society / Günter Birtsch
The subversive Kant : the vocabulary of "public" and "publicity" / John Christian Laursen
On enlightenment for the common man / Jonathan B. Knudsen
Modern culture comes of age : Hamann versus Kant on the root metaphor of enlightenment / Garrett Green
Jacobi's critique of the enlightenment / Dale E. Snow
Early romanticism and the Aufklärung / Frederick C. Beiser
Progress : ideas, skepticism, and critique
the heritage of the Enlightenment / Rudolph Vierhaus. What is enlightenment? / Rüdiger Bittner
Reason against itself : some remarks on enlightenment / Max Horkheimer
What is enlightened thinking? / Georg Picht
What is critique? / Michel Foucault
The unity of reason in the diversity of its voices / Jürgen Habermas
The battle of reason with the imagination / Hartmut Böhme and Gernot Böhme
The failure of Kant's imagination / Jane Kneller
The gender of enlightenment / Robin May Schott
Autonomy, individuality, and self-determination / Lewis Hinchman
Enlightened cosmopolitanism : the political perspective of the Kantian "sublime" / Kevin Paul Geiman
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