The Enlightenment and Modernity

✍ Scribed by Norman Geras, Robert Wokler (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 246
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Sceptical Enlightenment: Philosopher Travellers Look Back at Europe....Pages 3-24
Education Can Do All....Pages 25-49
Kant: the Arch-enlightener....Pages 50-65
Kant, Property and the General Will....Pages 66-79
Can Enlightenment Morality be Justified Teleologically?....Pages 80-99
Ganging A’gley....Pages 100-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
English Conservatism and Enlightenment Rationalism....Pages 117-134
Four Assumptions About Human Nature....Pages 135-160
The Enlightenment, the Nation-state and the Primal Patricide of Modernity....Pages 161-183
Critique and Enlightenment: Michel Foucault on ‘Was ist Aufklärung?’....Pages 184-203
The Enlightenment, Contractualism and the Moral Polity....Pages 204-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-232

✦ Subjects

Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Intellectual Studies; History of Philosophy; Political Science

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