What’s Left of Enlightenment

A Postmodern Question

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ID19902422
EditorsKeith M Baker, Peter Hanns Reill
Year2002
Publication date2002-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhat’s Left of Enlightenment (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503619128
OpenAlexW4301445669
ISBN9781503619128
LanguageEN
Citations received7

It has become increasingly clear in recent years that, for all their differences, the many varieties of thinking commonly grouped together under the rubric of “postmodernism” share at least one salient characteristic: they all depend upon a stereotyped account of the Enlightenment. Postmodernity requires a “modernity” to be repudiated and superseded, and the tenets of this modernity have invariably been identified with the so-called Enlightenment Project. This volume aims to explore critically the now conventional opposition between Enlightenment and Postmodernity and question some of the conclusions drawn from it. In so doing, the authors focus on three general areas. Part I, “Enlightenment or Postmodernity?”, reflects on the way in which contemporary discussion characterizes the two movements as radical alternatives. Part II, “Critical Confrontations,” provides a kind of archaeology of this opposition by charting a series of critical engagements by those who have affirmed or demeaned Enlightenment values in the twentieth century. Part III, “A Postmodern Enlightenment?”, complicates the perceived dichotomy between Enlightenment and Postmodernity by pointing to the existence within the Enlightenment of elements frequently seen as characteristic of Postmodernity. The contributors are Lorraine Daston, Dena Goodman, David Hollinger, Lawrence E. Klein, Jonathan Knudsen, Michael Meranze, Richard Rorty, Hans Sluga, and Johnson Kent Wright

Enlightenment · Theology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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