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The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It includes rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival.The Enlightenment's critique of tradition was a necessary consequence of the fundamental modern principle that we humans are solely responsible for the course of history. Hence we can accept no belief, no authority, no institutions that are not in some way justified. This foundation, for better or for worse, determined the course of the following centuries. Despite contemporary reactions against it, the Enlightenment continues to shape our own time and still distinguishes Western culture from any other.

Enlightenment. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Philosophy and civilization. --- Civilization and philosophy --- Civilization --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Renaissance --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- History

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From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups-including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations-who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even moral regeneration. These cultural battles took on heightened importance precisely because the stakes were nothing less than the very shape and significance of West German domestic modernity. Betts tells the rich and far-reaching story of how and why commodity aesthetics became a focal point for fashioning a certain West German cultural identity. This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.

Industrial design --- Design, Industrial --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Design --- History. --- 20th century german culture. --- 20th century industrial design. --- architects. --- automobiles. --- bauhaus. --- braun. --- cold war politics. --- commodity aesthetics. --- consumer appliances. --- consumer groups. --- cultural identity. --- cultural studies. --- design. --- designers. --- domestic modernity. --- economic recovery. --- furniture. --- germany. --- historical. --- industrial culture. --- industry. --- institutional life. --- international modernism. --- materialism. --- modernism. --- modernity. --- moral regeneration. --- nation state. --- politics. --- postwar germany. --- social reform. --- visual culture. --- werkbund. --- west germany.

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Nouvelles Études Francophones (NEF) is the official refereed journal of the International Council of Francophone Studies / Conseil International d’Études Francophones (CIÉF). NEF publishes scholarly research in the language, arts, literatures, cultures, and civilizations of Francophone countries and regions throughout the world.

French literature --- Civilization, Modern --- French language --- French influences --- History and criticism --- French influences. --- Foreign countries. --- Periodicals --- Francofonie --- Franstalige landen --- Franstalige letterkunde --- Taal en cultuur --- tijdschriften --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- tijdschriften. --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Civilization --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Renaissance --- E-journals

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Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, et leurs répliques en Asie et en Europe, nous ont jetés dans l'angoisse et le désarroi. Le nouveau désordre mondial est d'abord dans nos têtes. Y aurait-il, malgré toutes nos dénégations, un vrai «choc des civilisations»? Et si oui, quelles civilisa- tions? L'Occident contre l'islam, l'Europe contre l'Amérique? Dans cette confusion, nous voudrions sauver notre spécificité européenne, mais au nom de quoi le faisons-nous? À lire les journaux et les livres parus depuis trois ans, souvent signés de plumes prestigieuses, on peut craindre que ce soit au nom d'une sagesse impuissante, d'un pacifisme hargneux, et d'une autocritique aussi complaisante que suicidaire. Pourtant, l'Europe n'est pas tout à fait indigne de vivre. L'idéal de civilisation qu'elle a si souvent trahi n'est pas mort pour autant. Il faut ressaisir cet idéal, remonter à sa source, le réaffirmer dans toute sa claire exigence. À ce prix, nous resterons civilisés.

French literature (outside France) --- World politics --- International relations --- Geopolitics --- Pacifism --- Civilization, Modern --- Philosophy --- Peace --- Sociology, Military --- Evil, Non-resistance to --- Nonviolence --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- History --- World politics - 21st century --- Geopolitics - 21st century --- Civilization, Modern - 21st century - Philosophy

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#KVHA:Neologismen; Engels --- Civilization, Modern --- English language --- Language and culture --- Vocabulary --- Word books --- Words, Stock of --- Diction --- Lexicology --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Words, New --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- New words --- Terms and phrases --- English --- History --- English language New words --- Germanic languages