12. What Was the Enlightenment?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Living the Enlightenment vii
4. Acknowledgments xvi
5. Part I. The Philosophers’ Enlightenment
6. 1. Historians and Philosophers 3
7. 2. Kant: Was ist Aufklärung? 7
8. 3. Hegel 12
9. 4. Marx and Nietzsche 23
10. 5. Horkheimer and Adorno 30
11. 6. Foucault 34
12. 7. Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions 43
13. Part II. The Hitorians’ Enlightenment
14. 8. For a Defense of Historical Knowledge 57
15. 9. The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy 67
16. 10. The Enlightenment–French Revolution Paradigm 79
17. 11. The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem 87
18. 12. What Was the Enlightenment? 95
19. 13. Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution 120
20. 14. Politicization and Natura naturans 140
21. Afterword The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Régime’s Cultural Revolution? 155
22. Notes 173
23. Index 203