Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Philosophy, and Politics
- ISBN-10
- 1498558135
- ISBN-13
- 9781498558136
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-12-29
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Authors
- Geoff Boucher, Henry Martyn Lloyd
Description
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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