The enlightenment : history of an idea / Vincenzo Ferrone ; translated by Elisabetta Tarantino.
| Author/creator | Ferrone, Vincenzo |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015] |
| Description | xvi, 216 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Lezioni illuministiche. English |
| Contents | Historians and Philosophers: The Peculiarity of the Enlightenment as Historical Category -- Kant: Was ist Aufklärung? The Emancipation of Man through Man -- Hegel: The Dialectics of the Enlightenment as Modernity's Philosophical Issue -- Marx and Nietzsche: The Enlightenment from Bourgeois Ideology to Will to Power -- Horkheimer and Adorno: The Totalitarian Face of the Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Foucault: The Return of the Centaur and the Death of Man -- Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions: From the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate to Benedict XVI's katholische Aufklärung -- For a Defense of Historical Knowledge: Beyond the Centaur -- The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy -- The Enlightenment-French Revolution Paradigm: Between Political Myth and Epistemological Impasse -- The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem: From Political History to Social and Cultural History -- What Was the Enlightenment? The Humanism of the Moderns in Ancien Régime Europe -- Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution -- Politicization and Natura naturans: The Late Enlightenment Question and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime -- Afterword: The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Régime's Cultural Revolution? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from the Italian. |
| LCCN | 2014015233 |
| ISBN | 9780691161457 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0691161453 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 40024749762 |