Authors: Keith Michael Baker (Editor), Peter Hanns Reill
ISBN-13: 9780804740265, ISBN-10: 0804740267
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: 1
Keith Michael Baker is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of History and Director of the Humanities Center at Stanford University. His works include Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Peter Hanns Reill is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. Among his works is The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism.
This volume explores the conventional opposition between Enlightenment and Postmodernity and questions some of the conclusions drawn from it.
Contributors | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Enlightenment or Postmodernity? | |
The Enlightenment and the Genealogy of Cultural Conflict in the United States | 7 | |
The Continuity Between the Enlightenment and 'Postmodernism' | 19 | |
Pt. II | Critical Confrontations | |
The Historicist Enlightenment | 39 | |
Heidegger and the Critique of Reason | 50 | |
"A Bright Clear Mirror": Cassirer's The Philosophy of the Enlightenment | 71 | |
Critique and Government: Michel Foucault and the Question 'What Is Enlightenment?' | 102 | |
Pt. III | A Postmodern Enlightenment? | |
Enlightenment Fears, Fears of Enlightenment | 115 | |
Difference: An Enlightenment Concept | 129 | |
Enlightenment as Conversation | 148 | |
Notes | 169 | |
Index | 193 |