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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

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Author Biography: Keith Michael Baker

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.

Book Synopsis

This volume explores the conventional opposition between Enlightenment and Postmodernity and questions some of the conclusions drawn from it.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction1
Pt. IEnlightenment or Postmodernity?
The Enlightenment and the Genealogy of Cultural Conflict in the United States7
The Continuity Between the Enlightenment and 'Postmodernism'19
Pt. IICritical Confrontations
The Historicist Enlightenment39
Heidegger and the Critique of Reason50
"A Bright Clear Mirror": Cassirer's The Philosophy of the Enlightenment71
Critique and Government: Michel Foucault and the Question 'What Is Enlightenment?'102
Pt. IIIA Postmodern Enlightenment?
Enlightenment Fears, Fears of Enlightenment115
Difference: An Enlightenment Concept129
Enlightenment as Conversation148
Notes169
Index193

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