Enlightenment and Modernity

Name: Enlightenment and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780333716502

ISBN-10: 0333716507

ISBN-13: 9780333716502

Edition: 2000

Authors: Norman Geras, Robert Wokler

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This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to 18th century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state and with regard to barbarism.

Book details

List price: $96.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Editors' Preface


Introduction




Interpreting Enlightenment Principles



The Sceptical Enlightenment: Philosopher Travellers Look Back at Europe




Education Can Do All




Kant: the Arch-enlightener




Kant, Property and the General Will




Can Enlightenment Morality be Justified Teleologically?




Ganging A'gley




Assessing the Enlightenment Roots of Modernity



English Conservatism and Enlightenment Rationalism




Four Assumptions About Human Nature




The Enlightenment, the Nation-state and the Primal Patricide of Modernity




Critique and Enlightenment: Michel Foucault on 'Was ist Aufklarung?'




The Enlightenment, Contractualism and the Moral Polity



Index