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One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into question many of the clichés that still dominate scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment’s literary, philosophical, and political culture. Yet this work has so far had little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on its legacy, namely, philosophy and political science. Edited by Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of ‘Continental’ philosophy and political theory. In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present
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"The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure.By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread that Enlightenment could be coupled with toleration, the progress of commerce and the end of the fanatic wars of religion that were destroying Europe. At its heart was the battle to establish and maintain liberty in free states – and the hope that absolute monarchies such as France and free states like Britain might even subsist together, equally respectful of civil liberties. Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war. Xenophobia was rife and liberty itself turned fanatic.The End of Enlightenment traces the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists around the world, including figures as diverse as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism.Returning us to these tumultuous events and ideas, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, Whatmore offers a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured - especially as the problems addressed at the end of Enlightenment are still with us today."--
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Atemberaubend erzählte Ideengeschichte. Martin Mulsows Buch "Moderne aus dem Untergrund" wurde 2002 schnell zu einem Standardwerk der Aufklärungsforschung und sorgte für einen Schub neuer Denkanstöße. Der Kulturwissenschaftler legt nun eine grundlegende Überarbeitung und Erweiterung vor: "Radikale Frühaufklärung in Deutschland 1680 - 1720" bietet in zwei Bänden eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme des radikalen Denkens, das sich in Deutschland um 1700 entwickelt hat. Mulsow verfolgt die "clandestine" - nur in Handschriften oder anonymen Traktaten verbreitete - Wissensproduktion mit detektivischem Spürsinn in jüdischen Polemiken gegen das Christentum, medizinischen Dissertationen, naturrechtlichen Debatten, gelehrten Religionsgeschichten, atheistischen Pamphleten und politischen Traktaten. Er korrigiert das gängige Bild der Aufklärung, indem er zeigt, wie mit neuen Gedanken experimentiert und gespielt worden ist und kleine Gruppen den Mut besaßen, freiwillig oder unfreiwillig den Stein der Veränderung ins Rollen zu bringen. Biographische Informationen Martin Mulsow, geb. 1959, ist Professor für Wissenskulturen der europäischen Neuzeit an der Universität Erfurt und Direktor des Forschungszentrums Gotha. Ausgezeichnet u. a. mit dem Anna-Krüger-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa, 2014.
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The period from the Jacobite rebellion (1745) to the Scottish Reform Act (1832) saw the rise of some of the most influential thinkers of the contemporary world. Bruce Lenman provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland.The Reform Act spelled the end of political and social systems that had presided over industrial and agricultural revolutions turning Scotland from a rural society to one of the most urbanised and industrialised of European nations. Scotland also moved from being simply an active participant in the cultural life of western Europe to being a leader in a new, more expansive, Atlantic and European world where the ideas of its great Enlightenment thinkers circulated from Moscow to Philadelphia.The political framework for changes was the Union of 1707 which incorporated Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and after 1800 Great Britain and Ireland. However, within the UK a distinctive political system run for most of this period by either the Dukes of Argyll or the so-called 'Dundas Despotism' dominated Scotland. This volume studies how that system first stimulated and exploited cultural and economic change and then was finally destroyed by it.This book is a revised and expanded edition of Integration and Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 1993).Key Features:*discusses agricultural and industrial revolutions*considers Scottish urbanisation*examines the impact of mass migration and the Highland Clearances on Gaelic society*assesses the development of the Enlightenment thought through influential figures such as economist Adam Smith, philosopher David Hume, artist Henry Raeburn and architects the Adam brothers.
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Die Impulse der Aufklärung, insbesondere die Ideen und Leitbilder der Selbstbestimmung und Selbstverantwortung, aber auch die der Gestaltbarkeit von Geschichte und Gesellschaft, haben bis heute ihre Geltung behalten und wirken noch immer orientierend. Im ersten Band der Reihe 'Laboratorium Aufklärung' unternehmen deshalb Wissenschaftler ganz unterschiedlicher Disziplinen den Versuch, aus der Perspektive ihrer Fächer Laboratoriumssituationen im 18. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart aufzuzeigen und danach zu fragen, welche Bedeutung die Beschäftigung mit der Aufklärung für die heutige Moderne haben kann und umgekehrt, ob und wie sich heute eine neues Bild der Aufklärung formt.
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