The Late Enlightenment Question and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime 140 The Humanism of the Moderns in Ancien Régime Europe 95ġ3 Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution 120 The Cultural Revolution of the Ancien Régime 55ĩ The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy 67ġ0 The Enlightenment–French Revolution Paradigmīetween Political Myth and Epistemological Impasse 79ġ1 The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problemįrom Political History to Social and Cultural History 87 The Return of the Centaur and the Death of Man 34ħ Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positionsįrom the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate to Benedict XVI’s katholische Aufklärung 43 The Totalitarian Face of the Dialectic of Enlightenment 30 The Enlightenment from Bourgeois Ideology to Will to Power 23 The Dialectics of the Enlightenment as Modernity’s Philosophical Issue 12 The Peculiarity of the Enlightenment as Historical Category 3 Via Val d’Aposa 7-40123 book has been composed in Minion Pro and ITC Avant Garde Gothic SEGRETARIATO EUROPEO PER LE PUBBLICAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS Title.īritish Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available The enlightenment : history of an idea / Vincenzo Ferrone translated by Elisabetta Tarantino.ġ. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacket art: Detail of frontispiece of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1772, by Bonaventure-Louis Prévost, based on an original sketch by Charles-Nicholas Cochin. In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TW Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 The afterword to the 2015 edition is © 2015 by Princeton University Press Published by arrangement with Marco Vigevani Agenzia LetterariaĮnglish translation is copyright © 2015 by Princeton University Press Originally published in Italian as Lezioni illuministiche, copyright © 2010, Giuseppe Laterza & Figli. The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS-Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche. Featuring an illuminating afterword describing how his argument challenges the work of Anglophone interpreters including Jonathan Israel, The Enlightenment provides a fascinating reevaluation of the true nature and legacy of one of the most important and contested periods in Western history. These new ways of thinking gave birth to new values that spread throughout society and changed how everyday life was lived and understood. Ferrone explains why the Enlightenment was a profound and wide-ranging cultural revolution that reshaped Western identity, reformed politics through the invention of human rights, and redefined knowledge by creating a critical culture. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was-and why it is still relevant today. In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. A compelling reevaluation of the Enlightenment from one of its leading historians
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