Author:
Ferrone, Vincenzo.
ImprintPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxvi, 216 pages ; 25 cm
Note:Historians and Philosophers: The Peculiarity of the Enlightenment as Historical Category -- Kant: Was ist Aufklarung? The Emancipation of Man through Man -- Hegel: The Dialectics of the Enlightenment as Modernity's Philosophical Issue -- Marx and Nietzsche: The Enlightenment from Bourgeois Ideology to Will to Power -- Horkheimer and Adorno: The Totalitarian Face of the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Foucault: The Return of the Centaur and the Death of Man -- Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions: From the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate to Benedict XVI's katholische Aufklarung -- For a Defense of Historical Knowledge: Beyond the Centaur -- The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy -- The Enlightenment-French Revolution Paradigm: Between Political Myth and Epistemological Impasse -- The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem: From Political History to Social and Cultural History -- What Was the Enlightenment? The Humanism of the Moderns in Ancien Regime Europe -- Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution -- Politicization and Natura naturans: The Late Enlightenment Question and the Crisis of the Ancien Regime -- Afterword: The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Regime's Cultural Revolution?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
