What Enlightenment Was, What It Still Might Be, and Why Kant May Have Been Right After All

Bibliographic Data

ID3757005
AuthorsJames Schmidt (Boston University, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume49
Issue5
Pages647-663
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764205282215
OpenAlexW1990373732
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited32

Debates about "the end(s) of Enlightenment" tend to confuse the Enlightenment (the historical period) with enlightenment (an activity whose nature and ends were the subject of much debate during the 18th century). This article explores the history of discussions of "enlightenment" and "the Enlightenment," paying particular attention to the uncertainties the 18th century had about just what the former implied and the different ways in which the 19th and 20th centuries understood the latter

Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Period (music) · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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