The Enlightenment and Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312223854)

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization. Each author offers an interpretation of modern or postmodern philosophy against the background of a so-called Enlightenment Project, envisaged as the conceptual ghost that haunts modernity.

Author: Na Na
ISBN-10: 0312223854
ISBN-13: 9780312223854
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2000
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.72w x 0.91d