Reclaiming the Enlightenment Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement

Name: Reclaiming the Enlightenment Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement
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ISBN: 9780231126083

ISBN-10: 0231126085

ISBN-13: 9780231126083

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stephen Eric Bronner

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This book tackles an obvious yet profound problem of modern political life: the disorientation of intellectuals and activists on the left. As the study of political history and theory has been usurped by cultural criticism, a confusion over the origins and objectives of progressive politics has been the result. Specifically, it has become fashionable for intellectuals to attack the Enlightenment for its imperialism, eurocentrism, and scientism, and for the sexism and racism of some of its major representatives. Although the fact that individual thinkers harbored such prejudices is irrefutable, Stephen Bronner argues that reducing the Enlightenment ethos to these beliefs is wholly…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Interpreting the Enlightenment


Metaphysics, Tradition, and Politics


In Praise of Progress


Inventing Liberalism


The Great Divide: Enlightenment


Counter-Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere Abolishing the Ghetto


Anti-Semitism, Racism, and the Other The Illusory Dialectic: From Enlightenment to Totalitarianism Experiencing Reality: The Culture Industry, Subjectivity, and Identity Pathways to Freedom: Rights, Reciprocity, and the Cosmopolitan Sensibility Renewing the Legacy: Renewing the Legacy