Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Enlightenment or Postmodernity?
6. The Enlightenment and the Genealogy of Cultural Conflict in the United States 7
7. The Continuity Between the Enlightenment and 'Postmodernism' 19
8. Part II: Critical Confrontations
9. The Historicist Enlightenment 39
10. Heidegger and the Critique of Reason 50
11. "A Bright Clear Mirror": Cassirer's The Philosophy of the Enlightenment 71
12. Critique and Government: Michel Foucault and the Question 'What Is Enlightenment?' 102
13. Part III: A Postmodern Enlightenment?
14. Enlightenment Fears, Fears of Enlightenment 115
15. Difference: An Enlightenment Concept 129
16. Enlightenment as Conversation 148
17. Notes 169
18. Index 193