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, Lumière, Aufklärung, in an attempt to understand how these eighteenth-century concepts continue to shape and influence modern notions of liberal culture.
This collection of essays approaches these important questions in a resolutely European and multi-lingual perspective. Ranging from Victor Cousin to Peter Gay, different chapters consider Tocqueville and the Hegelian school (Bruno Bauer, David Friedrich Strauss, Hermann Hettner), the intellectual currents in Europe around 1900 (Wilhelm Dilthey, Gustave Lanson), the thinkers of the Weimar Republic (Ernst Cassirer) and of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno), and the debates after the Second World War (Franco Venturi). While the principal focus is on writing in French, German and English, the book also treats the Russian- and Italian-speaking worlds.
This important contribution to the history of ideas helps us to redefine the Enlightenment. These essays do not merely describe historical assessments of an eighteenth-century movement of ideas: they contribute to the ongoing debate about the very nature of the concept of Enlightenment.
Show moreEnlightenment 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, Lumière, Aufklärung, in an attempt to understand how these eighteenth-century concepts continue to shape and influence modern notions of liberal culture.
This collection of essays approaches these important questions in a resolutely European and multi-lingual perspective. Ranging from Victor Cousin to Peter Gay, different chapters consider Tocqueville and the Hegelian school (Bruno Bauer, David Friedrich Strauss, Hermann Hettner), the intellectual currents in Europe around 1900 (Wilhelm Dilthey, Gustave Lanson), the thinkers of the Weimar Republic (Ernst Cassirer) and of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno), and the debates after the Second World War (Franco Venturi). While the principal focus is on writing in French, German and English, the book also treats the Russian- and Italian-speaking worlds.
This important contribution to the history of ideas helps us to redefine the Enlightenment. These essays do not merely describe historical assessments of an eighteenth-century movement of ideas: they contribute to the ongoing debate about the very nature of the concept of Enlightenment.
Show moreIntroduction: Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) / Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions de Lumières, d’Enlightenment et d’Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980
Christian Helmreich (Halle) Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières
Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856: deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle
Daniel Weidner (Halle) Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch
Francesca Iannelli (Rome) Understanding, radicalizing and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel’s use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy
Stéphane Zékian (Lyon) Les Lumières à l’épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d’éloquence à l’Académie française (1831-1904)
Brian W. Young (Oxford) Afyer Carlyle: ‘Enlightenment’ in Victorian Britain
Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) Germanizing the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Aufklärung
Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils
Andrew Kahn (Oxford) The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900
Mike Rottmann (Halle) The dilemma of Enlightenment: German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century
James Schmidt (Boston) Nihilism, Enlightenment, and the ‘new failure of nerve’: arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947
Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) Ideas in action: Franco Venturi’s Settecento
Gregory S. Brown (Las Vegas) The question of Peter Gay’s Enlightenment: between ‘heavenly city’ and the ‘brute facts of political life’ (1948-1956)
Daniel Fulda (Halle) ‘Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist wieder da’: activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left and in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR
Élisabeth Décultot is Humboldt-Professor of German literature at Martin Luther University Halle and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA). Her research focuses on 18th-19th century literature and the history of scholarly practices in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to European knowledge transfers. Nicholas Cronk is Professor of European Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford, and Director of the Voltaire Foundation. As general editor of the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, he has overseen the completion of the print edition in 205 volumes, and he is now directing the creation of Voltaire Online, the first definitive digital edition.
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