What is Enlightenment? : eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions

著者

• Schmidt, James

書誌事項

What is Enlightenment? : eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions

edited by James Schmidt

（Philosophical traditions, 7）

University of California Press, c1996

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-553) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780520202252

内容説明

This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?' This 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.

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780520202269

内容説明

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.

目次

PREFACE I Introduction: What Is Enlightenment? A Question, Its Context, and Some Consequences James Schmidt Part I. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DEBATE 1. The Question and Some Answers What Is to Be Done toward the Enlightenment of the Citizenry? (1783) Johann Karl Mohsen On the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) Moses Mendelssohn An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) Immanuel Kant Thoughts on Enlightenment (1784) Karl Leonhard Reinhold A Couple of Gold Nuggets, from the ... Wastepaper, or Six Answers to Six Questions (1789) Christoph Martin Wieland 2. The Public Use of Reason On Freedom of Thought and of the Press: For Princes, Ministers, and Writers (1784) On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits: For Consideration by Rulers, Censors, and Writers.(l787) Carl Friedrich Bahrdt Publicity (1792) Friedrich Karl von Moser Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, Who Have Oppressed It Until Now (1793) Johann Gottlieb Fichte 3. Faith and Enlightenment Letter to ChristianJacob Kraus (18 December 1784) * Johann Georg Hamann Metacritique on the Purism of Reason (1784) Johann Georg Hamann 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 (1788) Andreas Riem 4. The Politics of Enlightenment Something Lessing Said: A Commentary on Journeys of the Popes(I782) Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi True and False Political Enlightenment (1792) Friedrich Karl von Moser On the Influence of Enlightenment on Revolutions (1794) Johann Heinrich Tuftrunk Does Enlightenment Cause Revolutions? (1795) Johann Adam Bergk Part II. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS The Berlin Wednesday Society Gunter 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 Aujkliirung Frederick C. Beiser Progress: Ideas, Skepticism, and CritiqueThe Heritage of the Enlightenment Rudolph Vierhaus Part III. TWENTIETH-CENTURY QUESTIONS What Is Enlightenment? Rudiger 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 oflts Voices ]iirgen Habermas The Battle of Reason with the Imagination Hartmut Bohme and Gernot Bohme 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 CONTRIBUTORS TO PARTS II AND III SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA27989305
• ISBN:
  • 0520202252
  • 9780520202269
• LCCN: 95046975
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Berkeley
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 563 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC9 : 133
  • LCC : B802
  • DC20 : 190
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Enlightenment
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA22844699