Inventions of Enlightenment since 1800 : concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung /
Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century. Since the French Revolution we have grappled with the concepts of Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärun...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Eleven essays in English, four in French. |
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Liverpool :
Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford,
[2023].
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2023:11. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions Lumières, d'Enlightenment et d'Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980 / Nicholas Cronk and Élisabeth Décultot
- Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières / Christian Helmreich
- Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856; deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle / Élisabeth Décultot
- Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch / Daniel Weidner
- Understanding, radicalising and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel's use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy / Francesca Iannelli
- Les Lumières à l'épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d'éloquence à l'Académie française (1831-1904) / Stéphane Zékian
- After Carlyle: 'Enlightenment' in Vicctorian Britain / Brian W. Young
- Germanising the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dithey's Aufklärung / Avi Lifschitz
- Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils / Nicholas Cronk
- The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900 / Andrew Kahn
- The dilemma of Enlightenment German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century / Mike Rottmann
- Nihilism, Enlightenment and the 'new failure of nerve': arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947 / James Schmidt
- Ideas in action: Franco Venturi's Settecento / Ruggero Sciuto
- The question of Peter Gay's Enlightenment: between 'heavenly city' and the 'brute facts of political life' (1948-1956) / Gregory S. Brown
- 'Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist weider da': activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left an in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR / Daniel Fulda.